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Parties Involved:
United States of America
Appellee
Yorie Von Kahl
Appellant

Document Text:

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The Honorable Ralph R. Erickson, United States District Judge for the District

of North Dakota.

United States Court of Appeals

FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT

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No. 03-3009

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United States of America, *

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Appellee, *

* Appeal from the United States

v. * District Court for the 

* District of North Dakota

Yorie Von Kahl, *

* [UNPUBLISHED]

Appellant. *

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Submitted: April 1, 2004

Filed: April 26, 2004

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Before BYE, McMILLIAN, and RILEY, Circuit Judges.

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PER CURIAM.

Yorie Von Kahl (Kahl) appeals from the final judgment entered in the United

States District Court1

 for the District of North Dakota denying his motion to correct

an illegal sentence. Kahl, who was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1983 for his

role in a shootout that resulted in the deaths of two United States Marshals, brought

this motion pursuant to a former, pre-1987 version of Fed. R. Crim. P. 35(a) (court

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may correct illegal sentence at any time). As the district court determined, Kahl’s

arguments in support of the motion did not relate to the legality of his sentence and,

in any event, were meritless. See Hill v. United States, 368 U.S. 424, 430 (1962)

(narrow function of Rule 35 is to permit correction of illegal sentence; sentence is not

illegal if it did not exceed that prescribed by relevant statutes, multiple prison terms

were not imposed for same offense, and terms of sentence itself were not legally or

constitutionally invalid); United States v. Woods, 973 F.2d 677, 678 (8th Cir. 1992)

(sentence within statutory maximum is not illegal sentence). Contrary to Kahl’s

contention, federal jurisdiction supporting the jury verdicts was established, and his

convictions and sentences for second-degree murder were authorized by 18 U.S.C.

§ 1111 (maximum sentence of life) and § 1114 (conferring federal jurisdiction to

punish those who kill United States employees engaged in performance of official

duties). Accordingly, we affirm. See 8th Cir. R. 47B.

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