Legal Opinion
United States v. Honken
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided September 12, 2008No. 05-3871PublishedCited by 45 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RILEY, Circuit Judge.
In 1993, after being indicted on federal drug trafficking charges, Dustin Lee Honken (Honken) and his girlfriend, Angela Johnson (Johnson), kidnapped and murdered a federal witness, the witness’s girlfriend, and the girlfriend’s two young daughters. Honken and Johnson murdered another potential federal witness three months later.
In 2004, a jury convicted Honken on all 17 counts of a superseding indictment: five counts of witness tampering, 1 one count of soliciting the murder of a witness, 2 one count of conspiracy to tamper with witnesses and to solicit the murder of…
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