No. 21-7678

Robert Elton v. Oklahoma

Lower Court: Oklahoma
Docketed: 2022-04-21
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
IFP
Tags: arizona-v-united-states constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure edwards-v-vannoy federal-preemption indian-country judicial-jurisdiction mcculloch-v-maryland preemption state-court-powers tribal-sovereignty
Latest Conference: 2022-06-23
Question Presented (from Petition)

1. Whether a State's contortion of Edwards v. Vannoy (2021) to delimit Indian Country powers into new rules of criminal procedure can be permitted to invalidate the preemption analyses of McCulloch v. Maryland (1819) and Arizona v. United States (2012)?

2. Whether a State court of criminal appeals' wrongful manufacture of jurisdiction over federally recognized tribal members results in an unconstitutional judicial resuscitation of 13th Amendment prohibitions?

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether a State's contortion of Edwards v. Vannoy (2021) to delimit Indian Country powers into new rules of criminal procedure can be permitted to invalidate the preemption analyses of McCulloch v. Maryland (1819) and Arizona v. United States (2012)?

Docket Entries

2022-06-27
Petition DENIED.
2022-06-08
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 6/23/2022.
2022-04-18
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due May 23, 2022)

Attorneys

Robert Elton
Robert Elton — Petitioner