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Defendant pleaded guilty to sex-trafficking offenses and was sentenced to an above-guidelines sentence as recommended under the terms of defendant’s plea agreement. On appeal, defendant challenged the substantive reasonableness of his sentence.
Where the district court adequately considered the statutory sentencing factors and defendant knowingly and voluntarily agreed to his sentence in his plea agreement, the district court did not impose a substantively unreasonable sentence.
Judgment is affirmed.
U.S. v. Jones (MLW No. 74208/Case No. 19-1476 – 3 pages) (U.S. Court of Appeals, 8th Circuit, per curiam) Appealed from U.S. District Court, Western District of Missouri, Bough, J.
