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Date: 10-18-2021
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Case Number: 0:20-cr-00143-NEB-LIB
Judge: W. Anders Folk
Court: United States District Court for the District of Minnesota ( County)
Plaintiff's Attorney: United States Attorney’s Office
Defendant's Attorney:
Description: Minneapolis, MN: Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with assault with a dangerous weapon resulting in serious bodily injury.
During the early morning hours of June 3, 2020, Wesley Robert Warren, 23, and another man got into an argument with the victim. The argument escalated into a physical altercation and Warren and the other man knocked out the victim. Once the fight was over and the victim was laying face down on the ground, Warren continued the assault by picking up a 42-pound cinderblock and dropping it on the back of the victim’s head. As a result of the assault the victim was hospitalized for several weeks due to brain trauma and was later transferred to a long-term care facility.
On June 17, 2021, following a four-day jury trial, Warren was found guilty of one count of assault with a dangerous weapon and one count of assault resulting in serious bodily injury.
Acting U.S. Attorney W. Anders Folk for the District of Minnesota made the announcement after U.S. District Judge Nancy E. Brasel sentenced the defendant.
This case was the result of an investigation conducted by the Becker County Sheriff’s Office, the White Earth Police Department, and the FBI Headwaters Safe Trails Task Force.
This case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Deidre Y. Aanstad and Special Assistant U.S. Attorney Caleb J.
Dogeagle.
18:113(a)(3), 1151, and 1153(a) ASSAULT WITH A DANGEROUS WEAPON
(2)
18:113(a)(6), 1151, and 1153(a) ASSAULT RESULTING IN SERIOUS BODILY INJURY
(3)
Outcome: Defendant was sentenced to 100 months in prison.
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