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This document is a court case involving two Passamaquoddy Indian brothers, Leonard and Raynard Levesque, who were convicted of assault. The brothers appealed their convictions on several grounds. The court found that: 1) The prosecution presented sufficient and undisputed evidence to establish that the assault occurred within a "dependent Indian community," making it "Indian country" and within federal jurisdiction. This included evidence about the nature of the area, its population, and its relationship w

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