Appeals court denies man’s appeal of his 2014 conviction

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit denied an Oklahoma man’s challenge to his criminal convictions, rejecting his argument that the state lacked jurisdiction because he is a member of the Kickapoo Tribe of Oklahoma and that the crimes occurred on the Citizen Potawatomi Nation reservation.

Thomas Roye Wahpekeche argued that if the crimes occurred within a reservation, jurisdiction would …