United States Eighth Circuit

Defendant's cruel, brutal and degrading treatment of the deceased justified an upward enhancement for extreme conduct in a voluntary manslaughter case. District court did not err in ordering defendant to pay a portion of the costs of a Native American ceremony as a necessary funeral or related expense.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/10/2002
• Published 12/10/2002

Judges

• MURPHY, Circuit Judge., Before MURPHY, JOHN R. GIBSON, and SMITH, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eighth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Randall B. Turner, argued, Aberdeen, SD, for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Mikal Hansen, argued, Asst. U.S. Atty., Pierr, SD (Jeannine Huber, Sioux Falls, SD, on the brief), for appellee.