Criminal Law: Firearms and Drug Offenses-Substantive Reasonableness of Sentence-Sentencing Discretion

Defendant appealed the judgment of sentence imposed following his guilty plea to drug and firearms offenses, challenging the substantive reasonableness of the sentence.

Where the district court properly considered the statutory sentencing factors, there was no abuse of discretion and defendant’s below-Guidelines sentence was presumptively reasonable.

Judgment is affirmed.

U.S. v. Soper (MLW No. 79568/Case No. 22-3280 – 2 pages) (U.S. Court of Appeals, 8th Circuit, per curiam) Appealed from U.S. District Court, Southern District of Iowa, Ebinger, J.