Legal Opinion
United States v. Two Shields
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided August 14, 2007No. 06-3573PublishedCited by 39 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JOHN R. GIBSON, Circuit Judge.
Melvin Troy Two Shields appeals his convictions for second-degree murder and assault resulting in serious bodily injury, the denial of his motion for a new trial, and his sentence to concurrent terms of 360 and 120 months’ imprisonment. We affirm the judgment of the district court. 1
On the afternoon of January 21, 2006, Two Shields was drinking vodka with several other people at a trailer home in Fort Yates, North Dakota, on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation. He drank heavily, and the police were called to remove him from the residence. An officer picked up…
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