02/11/09 - Appeals court acquits man because he isn't Indian

Author:
ICT Staff
Updated:
Sep 12, 2018
Original:
Feb 11, 2009

A federal appeals court Tuesday reversed the conviction of a Montana man imprisoned for assaulting a woman because the law under which he was charged required that he be an American Indian.

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