Legal Opinion
United States v. Earl Foster Boise
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided September 27, 1990No. 89-30071PublishedCited by 58 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EUGENE A. WRIGHT, Circuit Judge:
In April 1988 Quinton Boise, a six-week-old baby, died on the Warm Springs Indian Reservation. Following an investigation, the government charged his father, Earl Boise, with second degree murder in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 1111, 1153. A jury found him guilty and the court sentenced him to 240 months of imprisonment.
I. Sufficiency of the Evidence
Murder in the second degree is the “unlawful killing of a human being with malice aforethought.” 18 U.S.C. § 1111(a). Boise argues that, because there was insufficient evidence of second degree murder, the district…
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