Kenton Beckstead didn’t know what he was getting into when he left his law practice in Twin Falls, Idaho, in 2016 and took a position as a tribal prosecutor 400 miles north on the Nez Perce Reservation.
But soon after he began working with Nez Perce tribal law enforcement, Beckstead had a striking first impression that the police department was embroiled in "chaos." Crime-courts
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