Legal Opinion
United States v. Lester A. Hawkey
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided June 24, 1998No. 97-3248PublishedCited by 51 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HEANEY, Circuit Judge.
Lester A. Hawkey, a sheriff in Minnehaha County, South Dakota, was charged in a forty-one count indictment for misusing funds belonging to the Minnehaha Sheriffs Department (MSD) and the Minnehaha County Sheriff and Deputies Association (MCSDA). 2 A jury convicted Hawkey on all but two counts. 3 On July 21, 1997, the district court sentenced Hawkey to forty-one months of imprisonment. 4 On appeal, Haw-key challenges the sufficiency of the evidence supporting his convictions, the district court’s implementation of the United States Sentencing Guidelines (Sentencing…
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3Cited by51 opinions
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