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Criminal Law: Sentencing-Substantive Reasonableness

Staff Report//May 8, 2020

Criminal Law: Sentencing-Substantive Reasonableness

Staff Report//May 8, 2020

Where a defendant challenged his sentence in a felon-in-possession case, the district court adequately explained the considerations that it weighed, and the sentence was substantively reasonable.

Judgment is affirmed.

U.S. v. Tobias-Haywood (MLW No. 74831/Case No. 19-2023 – 3 pages) (U.S. Court of Appeals, 8th Circuit, per curiam) Appealed from U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Missouri.

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