Hello, hello, hello, welcome to your extra morning news show.

My name is Philip DeFranco, and today we're gonna take a deep dive

into a Supreme Court case that could significantly

alter an entire US state.

And it's a case called Carpenter v. Murphy,

and from where it started to where it has ended up,

it is a wild ride.

Now first, let's begin with the horrific origins

of how this all began. In the late 90s, you had a man by the name of Patrick Murphy, who was living with his girlfriend in eastern Oklahoma. His girlfriend had previously been in a

relationship with a man named George Jacobs. And a very important note here is that both Murphy

and Jacobs are members of the Muskogee Creek Indian Nation, which is a point that is crucial to

this case that we will touch on in a second. And one day Murphy got into an argument with his girlfriend about her previous relationship with Jacobs and told her that he was going to quote get her ex-husband. And on August 28th, 1999, Murphy

along with two of his friends, followed through on that promise. That evening at around 9.30 p.m.,

the three men went out driving in the town of Henrietta, Oklahoma, and happened to pass Jacobs, who

was in the backseat of his cousin's car. Murphy then proceeded to turn the car around and run Jacobs and his cousin off the road. And then in the midst of a vicious beating

of the two men, Murphy killed Jacobs by slashing his throat and severing his genitals with a folding

knife. And according to court documents, Murphy confessed his crime to his girlfriend that same

night after returning home. And in 2000, he was convicted of first degree of murder and sentenced to death by a jury. And so looking at that situation, most people would go, okay, well that's that. That's an open and shut case.

Well, as you might have guessed, because we're talking about it, no.

In 2004, during the appeals process, Murphy argued that the crime had taken place within the boundaries of the Creek Indian entirety of this reservation's borders were still in place today it would mean that this case

should not have been under the state of Oklahoma's jurisdiction this is because of

an 1885 law known as the Major Crimes Act which states that certain crimes like

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