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News Article: "Race Complicates Reservation Crime Fight"

"SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – For more than two hours on the night of May 16, 2007, Shane Maggi terrorized a Native American couple at their home on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in Montana, pistol whipping them and firing bullets above the husband's head.



Maggi, who suspected the couple had stolen his drugs, was convicted by a federal jury in 2008 and sentenced to more than 42 years in prison. But an appellate court here found Maggi did not meet its definition of a Native American and, as… Continue

Added by Nathan C Lowe on October 22, 2010 at 17:57 — No Comments

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