The Senate Indian Affairs Committee holds a hearing tomorrow to examine federal declinations to prosecute crimes in Indian Country.

The hearing starts at 9:30am and will be broadcast online. The witness list follows:

Panel 1
THE HONORABLE DREW WRIGLEY
U.S. Attorney for North Dakota, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC

MR. W. PATRICK RAGSDALE
Director, Office of Justice Services Bureau of Indian Affairs, U.S. Department of the Interior, Washington. DC

MR. THOMAS B. HEFFELFINGER
Partner, Best and Flanagan, LLP, Minneapolis, Minnesota

MR. M. BRENT LEONHARD
Deputy Attorney General. Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, Pendleton, Oregon

MR. JANELLE DOUGHTY
Director, Department of Justice and Regulatory, Southern Ute Indian Tribe,. Ignacio, Colorado

THE HONORABLE THOMAS W. WEISSMULLER
Board Member and Tribal Representative of the National Criminal Justice Association and Chief Justice of the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation, Mashantucket, Connecticut

Committee Notice
OVERSIGHT HEARING to examine Federal declinations to prosecute crimes in Indian Country (September 18, 2008)

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