Nevada Supreme Courtroom Principles From Nathan Chasing Horse
Posted on: December fifteen, 2023, 09:20h. 
Very last up-to-date on: December 15, 2023, ten:09h.
Previous cult leader Nathan Chasing Horse unsuccessful to get his charges dropped by Nevada’s prime courtroom, according to a ruling introduced this 7 days.
Attorneys tried to have the state Supreme Court docket toss out pending counts for alleged incorrect sexual associations and connected crimes.
Two of three justices revealed they did not feel they had jurisdiction in the situation. They selected not to rule on the merits.
We are not satisfied that [the] petitioner has shown that entertaining the writ is warranted,” Justices Patricia Lee and Ron D. Parraguirre said in a two-webpage ruling.
Nonetheless, Justice Douglas Herndon dissented and desired the case’s merits deemed.
Lawyers for Chasing Horse had argued the case from their consumer must have been dismissed. They claimed the Eighth Judicial District Court docket manufactured glitches.
The authorized team claimed the sex was consensual, evidence was improperly gathered, and customers of the grand jury weren’t presented suitable instructions ahead of they returned the indictment.
The situation will now go again to a lower court docket in Nevada for a prison trial. He remains in the Clark County Detention Middle as of Friday. Bail was established at $300K.
Facing 18 Counts
In whole, Chasing Horse, 47, is going through 18 Nevada felonies. He was indicted on six counts of sexual assault, ten counts of sexual assault from a minimal, kidnapping of a small, and lewdness. The allegations stem from incidents that took location between 2014 and 2020.
There are also expenses or pending fees in opposition to him in Nevada federal court docket, as well as from courts in Montana and Canada. They relate to the alleged exploitation of female victims, underage sex, pornography, and other counts.
The victims were Indigenous girls and teenagers, according to authorities.
One particular of Chasing Horse’s victims claims Chasing Horse promised he would recover her mother, who was struggling from cancer. He allegedly commenced assaulting her when she was fourteen.
Cult Pursuing
Chasing Horse was viewed by several in the cult acknowledged as The Circle as a tribal healer.
On January 31, authorities raided the North Las Vegas, Nev. residence where Chasing Horse lived with many wives, law enforcement mentioned. He was apprehended and booked.
Chasing Horse portrayed a character, Smiles a Good deal, in the 1990 Kevin Costner movie “Dances With Wolves.”
An on the web petition seeks to send him to prison and needs that authorities never grant him bail. As of Friday, 1,602 individuals place their names on the Change.org petition.
“Nathan Chasing Horse, Lakota Cult Leader, has abused and manipulated his way to where he is. He justifies to be imprisoned for the crimes he’s dedicated due to the violent mother nature of his intentions and ongoing menace to the group,” the petition mentioned.