( October 16, 2023, 11:34 AM EDT) -- GREAT FALLS, Mont. — A man sentenced to more than a year in prison by the courts of the Blackfeet Nation plausibly states in his petition for a writ of habeas corpus against the tribe that he was denied effective assistance of counsel and that his sentence was improper, a Montana federal judge found in denying the nation’s motion for judgment on the pleadings....