United States Eighth Circuit

A conviction and sentence for first degree burglary, assault resulting in serious bodily injury, assaulting a federal officer, and assault with a dangerous weapon is affirmed over claims that the district court erred by: 1) denying motions for judgment of acquittal and for severance of the charge for assaulting a federal officer; 2) admitting evidence of his prior acts and conviction; 3) its instruction on the definition of bodily injury; and 4) applying bodily injury enhancements to his sentence.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/19/2008
• Published 12/19/2008

Judges

• MURPHY, Circuit Judge., Before MURPHY, RILEY, and GRUENDER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eighth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Richard Steele, Oklahoma City FTC, Oklahoma City, OK, pro se.


• For Appellees:
  
• Jan Leslie Holmgren, Thomas J. Wright, U.S. Attorney's Office, Sioux Falls, SD, for Plaintiff-Appellee., Reed Alan Rasmussen, Siegel & Barnett, Aberdeen, SD, for Defendant-Appellant.