Mitchell v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

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1. “Dissatisfied with the custody and visitation rulings, [Father] filed several petitions seeking custody and/or protection orders in the tribal court. He first filed a petition seeking temporary custody in February 2014. Additional petitions followed after entry of the February 2015 custody order. The tribal court dismissed several of [Father's] petitions for lack of jurisdiction due to the Wyoming court proceedings. At other times, the tribal court claimed temporary emergency jurisdiction. The record does not contain the complete filings and dispositions for every filing, however, on May 29, 2017, the tribal court dismissed a petition for custody with prejudice for lack of jurisdiction, and ordered [Father] to refrain from further filings. [Father] and [Grandmother] disobeyed this order and continued to file documents requesting protection orders from the tribal court to establish emergency custody of [the child].”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Mitchell v. Preston

2. “for purposes of sentencing. Consequently, he argues the district court's failure to merge his sentences for these crimes violated double jeopardy under the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution and article 1, section 11 of the Wyoming Constitution, both of”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Winters v. State

3. “fall within the Department's guidelines ... or definitions of abuse and/or neglect,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Mitchell v. Preston