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101154P.pdf   07/06/2011  United States  v.  Roman Cavanaugh, Jr.
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  10-1154
   U.S. District Court for the District of North Dakota - Fargo   
   [PUBLISHED] [Melloy, Author, with Riley, Chief Judge, and Bye,
   Circuit Judge]
   Criminal case - Criminal law. Defendant's three tribal court
   misdemeanor convictions, while uncounseled, were valid in inception and
   the prior terms of imprisonment did not violate the U.S. Constitution,
   tribal law or the Indian Civil Rights Act; as a result, the convictions could
   be used as predicate convictions to establish the habitual offender
   elements of 18 U.S.C. Sec. 117. Judge Bye, dissenting.