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Criminal Law: Sentencing-Substantive Reasonableness-Defendant’s Childhood
Staff Report//May 28, 2019
Criminal Law: Sentencing-Substantive Reasonableness-Defendant’s Childhood
Staff Report//May 28, 2019
Where a defendant challenged his sentence in an illegal reentry case, arguing that the district court failed to give sufficient weight to his difficult childhood, the court properly weighed the mitigating factors against the lengthy criminal history, and the court did not abuse its discretion in imposing a sentence at the bottom of the guideline range.
Judgment is affirmed.
U.S. v. Fiscal (MLW No. 73231/Case No. 18-2133 – 3 pages) (U.S. Court of Appeals, 8th Circuit, per curiam) Appealed from U.S. District Court, District of Missouri.
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