10th Circuit: McGirt Does Not Require Murder Evidence To Be Suppressed

( March 11, 2024, 9:58 AM EDT) -- DENVER — A trial court did not err in denying a man’s motion to suppress evidence in a trial against him for murder because the law enforcement officers who investigated the crime in 2004 acted in good faith in believing that the land on which the crime was committed was not a part of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, a legal error that was not well understood until a U.S. Supreme Court’s decision clarified the issue in 2020, a 10th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel held in affirming the trial court’s judgment....