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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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