MURPHY v. UNITED STATES

No. 72-1679.

481 F.2d 57 (1973)

Lawrence MURPHY, Jr., et al., Appellants, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided June 29, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David Garcia, Devils Lake, N. D., for appellants.

Harold O. Bullis, U. S. Atty., Fargo, N. D., filed printed brief for appellee.

Before LAY and STEPHENSON, Circuit Judges, and TALBOT SMITH, Senior District Judge.


TALBOT SMITH, Senior District Judge.

This case arose out of an occupation of the Municipal Center (including the jail and law enforcement facilities) of the Bureau of Indian Affairs on the Devils Lake Sioux Indian Reservation at Fort Totten, North Dakota, in April, 1972.

At a meeting held at the home of defendant Lawrence Murphy, Jr., in the early hours of April 22, it was decided by the group there present that the Municipal Center would be "occupied." At...

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