UNITED STATES v. ROONEY

No. 22-1647.

63 F.4th 1160 (2023)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee v. Jonathan Daniel ROONEY, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Filed: March 28, 2023.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Counsel who presented argument on behalf of the appellant and appeared on the appellant brief was Kelly Mahoney Steenbock , AFPD, of Omaha, NE.

Counsel who presented argument on behalf of the appellee and appeared on the appellee brief was Lecia E. Wright , AUSA, of Omaha, NE.

Before BENTON, KELLY, and ERICKSON, Circuit Judges.


On May 16, 2020, Kozee Decorah was murdered on the Winnebago Reservation in Nebraska. Jonathan Rooney was charged with second degree murder and tampering with evidence related to Decorah's death. A jury acquitted Rooney of the murder charge but found him guilty of voluntary manslaughter, a lesser-included offense, and tampering...

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