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Criminal Law: Sentencing-Reasonableness
Staff Report//August 19, 2019
Where a defendant challenged her 140-month sentence in a methamphetamine case, the district court properly considered the relevant factors including the defendant’s addiction and her history of abuse, and the sentence was not substantively unreasonable.
Judgment is affirmed.
U.S. v. Ordonez (MLW No. 73709/Case No. 18-2015 – 3 pages) (U.S. Court of Appeals, 8th Circuit, per curiam) Appealed from U.S. District Court, Southern District of Iowa.
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