Legal Opinion
United States v. Dean Little Hawk
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided June 6, 2006No. 04-3666PublishedCited by 33 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GRUENDER, Circuit Judge.
Dean Little Hawk pled guilty to one count of assault resulting in serious bodily injury in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1153 and 113(a)(6). The district court 1 sentenced Little Hawk to 60 months’ imprisonment. Little Hawk appeals the sentence. For the reasons discussed below, we affirm. 2
I. BACKGROUND
Little Hawk was charged with assault following the November 25, 2003 bathwater burning of his two-year-old daughter at his mother’s residence on the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe Indian Reservation in Iron Lightning, South Dakota. Upset that the toddler soiled herself, Little…
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