Oklahoma AG asks Supreme Court again to reverse or limit McGirt | Crime-and-courts

Jimcy McGirt, 71, questions the jurisdiction of an Oklahoma state court for him in his 1997 convictions for a range of sex offenses. A Wagoner County District Court judge sentenced him to more than a millennium in prison that year.

McGirt was convicted of instrumental first-degree rape, lewd molestation, and violent sodomy after a previous conviction, according to court documents. He previously served a five-year prison sentence on a sodomy conviction.

“McGirt denies this judgment and this judgment as void without substantive jurisdiction because McGirt is a registered member of the state-recognized Seminole nation of Oklahoma and the alleged crimes allegedly were committed in the Indian country,” wrote McGirt in his self-submitted petition to the United States Supreme Court.

The crimes occurred in East Broken Arrow in late 1996. And according to the Oklahoma Attorney General’s response to the petition, they were committed against a child.