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said.
• Standing Rock's court system is considered better than most tribal operations, partly because the tribe provides public defenders and defendants do not have to prove they are too poor to afford one. That legal representation allows Zuger to hand out maximum sentences of three years, compared to one year on most reservations.
• "I have no problem putting people away, but it's got to be done fairly," Zuger said. "They have the right to be properly defended, because they're going to jail."
• A recent ruling by the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals allows federal prosecutors to use domestic violence convictions in tribal court to charge someone as a habitual domestic offender. Kerby St. John, a Standing Rock council member, was

convicted under that statute last month.
• "Our approach to addressing domestic violence in tribal communities is firm and uncompromising," said Brendan Johnson, U.S. attorney for South Dakota. "We will use every tool at our disposal to stop it."
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• SPENCER, S.D. (AP) -- Authorities say they are continuing to search an area in southeastern South Dakota for a Florida prisoner who escaped from a transport van at an interstate fuel stop.
• The Highway Patrol says 31-year-old Oscar Antonio Herrera-Menjivan was being taken to a Nebraska facility by a private prison transport company when he escaped about 2 a.m. Saturday. The van had stopped at a fuel station off Interstate 90's Exit 353, near Spencer.
• Authorities said Sunday they were continuing to pursue leads in the case and warned the public that the prisoner should be considered dangerous. He's described as 5-foot-5, 140 pounds with black hair and brown eyes.
• The patrol says Herrera-Menjivan was originally charged with sexual assault of a minor.
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