Douglas Dry Rosie Burlison Juanita McConnell v. Cfr Court of Indian Offenses for the Choctaw Nation James Wolfe, Magistrate

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• concluding the district court erred in determining that it lacked jurisdiction and remanding for consideration of exhaustion of tribal remedies
• “A petitioner must satisfy the ‘in custody’ requirement as a prerequisite to habeas corpus jurisdiction.”
• when presented with a § 1303 petition for habeas relief, the federal court must, in the first instance, determine whether the petitioner has exhausted tribal remedies
• “We read the ‘detention’ language as being analogous to the ‘in custody’ requirement.”

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