United States v. O'Neil Frank Iron Cloud

MURPHY, Circuit Judge.

O’Neil Frank Iron Cloud pled guilty to voluntary manslaughter in Indian country in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 1112 and 1153, and he was sentenced to 110 months imprisonment. Iron Cloud appeals from the judgment of the district court, 1 challenging an upward departure from the sentencing guidelines and an order of restitution which provided for a traditional Native American giveaway ceremony in commemoration of his victim. 2 We affirm.

Iron Cloud, a member of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, went out with friends on the evening of June 12, 2001. They stopped at the home of…