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Date: 11-25-2017

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United States of America v. Larry June

District of New Mexico Federal Courthouse - Albuquerque, New Mexico

Case Number: 1:16-cr-04707-JB

Judge: James O. Browning

Court: United States District Court for the District of New Mexico (Bernaillo County)

Plaintiff's Attorney: Niki Tapia-Brito and Michael D Murphy

Defendant's Attorney: Val Whitley

Description: Albuquerque, NM - Navajo Man Sentenced to 97 Months for Federal Voluntary Manslaughter Conviction - Defendant Prosecuted as Part of Federal Initiative to Address the Epidemic Incidence of Violence Against Native Women

Larry June, 58, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Shiprock, N.M., was sentenced November 22, 2017 afternoon in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to 97 months in prison for his conviction on a voluntary manslaughter charge. June will be on supervised release for three years after completing his prison sentence.

The FBI and Navajo Nation Division of Public Safety arrested June in Nov. 2016, on a criminal complaint charging him with killing a Navajo woman by stabbing her with a knife on Nov. 25, 2016, on the Navajo Indian Reservation in San Juan County, N.M. June was subsequently indicted on Dec. 20, 2016, and was charged with second-degree murder.

On Aug. 21, 2017, June pled guilty to a felony information charging him with voluntary manslaughter. In entering the guilty plea, June admitted that on Nov. 25, 2016, he stabbed the victim multiple times with a knife during a heated argument, and that the victim died as the result of the injuries she sustained.

This case was investigated by the Farmington office of the FBI and the Shiprock office of the Navajo Nation Division of Public Safety. Assistant U.S. Attorneys Niki Tapia-Brito and Michael D. Murphy prosecuted the case as part of the Tribal Special Assistant U.S. Attorney (Tribal SAUSA) Pilot Project in the District of New Mexico which is sponsored by the Justice Department’s Office on Violence Against Women under a grant administered by the Pueblo of Laguna. The Tribal SAUSA Pilot Project seeks to train tribal prosecutors in federal law, procedure and investigative techniques to increase the likelihood that every viable violent offense against Native women is prosecuted in either federal court or tribal court, or both. The Tribal SAUSA Pilot Project was largely driven by input gathered from annual tribal consultations on violence against women, and is another step in the Justice Department's on-going efforts to increase engagement, coordination and action on public safety in tribal communities.

Outcome: Defendant was sentenced to 97 months in prison.

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