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Illinois Secretary of State, redesigned state seal, assassinated outside his home [74] Jimmy Elliott: Chicago: 1883-03-01: Former world heavyweight boxing champion, shot by a gambler in a saloon [75] Patrick Henry Cronin: Chicago: 1889-05-04: Irish republican doctor murdered by affiliates of Clan na Gael: Carter Harrison Sr. Chicago: 1893-10-28
This is a list of U.S. Supreme Court cases involving Native American Tribes.Included in the list are Supreme Court cases that have a major component that deals with the relationship between tribes, between a governmental entity and tribes, tribal sovereignty, tribal rights (including property, hunting, fishing, religion, etc.) and actions involving members of tribes.
Contemporary Indian country jurisdiction has been shaped over the years by the rulings of many Supreme Court cases and federal statutes involving criminal and civil jurisdiction within Indian country. Today, the jurisdiction of Federal, state, or tribal courts usually depends upon whether the parties involved are considered to be Indians or ...
United States v. Lara, 541 U.S. 193 (2004), was a United States Supreme Court landmark case [1] which held that both the United States and a Native American (Indian) tribe could prosecute an Indian for the same acts that constituted crimes in both jurisdictions.
Just four years ago, the nearby Lisle Police Department solved the case of another murder—the 1976 slaying of Pamela Maurer, a 16-year-old girl who left her home to go get a soft drink. The next ...
Case history; Prior: Holding for the defendant, People v.Rivera, 227 Ill. 2d 1, 879 N.E.2d 876 (2007).: Holding; Unintentional errors by the court, that would not have altered the proceedings of the case, do not warrant a new trial and do not violate the Sixth Amendment's clause of the right to a fair trial.
Illinois has four different homicide crimes in total, with first-degree murder being the most serious offense. Illinois law defines first-degree murder as when a person intends to kill, intends to inflict great bodily harm, or knowingly engages in an act that has a strong probability of death or great bodily harm for another individual, causing a person's death. [2]
Court of Indian Offenses is an Article I Court operated by the U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Indian Affairs.Also known as a "CFR" (Code of Federal Regulations) Court, a Court of Indian Offenses has criminal and civil jurisdiction over Native Americans in Indian Country, on reservations and other Indian trust land that lacks its own tribal court system.