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DLN Nation : Tribal and Traditional Government

Contract of Chief Judge not renewed at Rosebud

by Ruth Steinberger
Special to Lakota Journal
May 16-23 2003

Rosebud - The Rosebud Sioux Tribe personnel office has confirmed for Lakota Journal that Tribal Judge Brian Collins' contract to continue to serve as tribal judge was not renewed. Collins will remain for 60 days to finish hearing cases currently before him.

Collins has been at the center of controversy for his strong stand on child support and domestic violence that has sometimes placed Indian men in jail. Additionally, questions concerning Collins background regarding legal offenses surfaced last year.

At the time, Angela Wilson, an attorney in the District Attorney's Office of Lawrence, Kansas issued a letter regarding an expunged case and then told Lakota Journal that she wrote the letter as a favor for a friend and it was not based on her knowledge of the case.

Wilson acknowledged in a phone conversation that she had wrongfully written the letter, which appeared on the District Attorney's Office letterhead.

A Denver court confirmed a 1968 drug conviction in which Collins was placed on five years probation following a no-contest plea.

The Rosebud Sioux Tribe personnel office did not name a replacement for Collins at press time.



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