The U.S. District Judge Charles B. Kornmann has sentenced a McLaughlin, South Dakota, man convicted of First-Degree Burglary.
The sentencing took place on November 4, 2024.
Nathaniel B. Griffin, 49, was sentenced to nearly 14 months in federal prison, followed by two years of supervised release, and ordered to pay a $100 special assessment to the Federal Crime Victims Fund.
A federal grand jury indicted Griffin in September of 2023. He pleaded guilty on July 29, 2024.
Shortly after nightfall on July 5, 2023, Griffin and two co-defendants went to a woman’s home in McLaughlin to assault a man they believed had inappropriately touched a girl.
McLaughlin lies within the Standing Rock Sioux Indian Reservation.
As the woman yelled at them to go away, one of the co-defendants kicked in her front door.
Griffin and another co-defendant rushed into the house while their accomplice stood on the stoop. Although the man was passed out, one of Griffin’s co-defendants repeatedly kicked him in the face while Griffin illuminated the scene with a cell phone flashlight.
The man incurred a broken nose and shattered orbital and sinus bones in the affray.
He still struggles with his vision and headaches today.
