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Criminal Law: Sentencing-Procedural Error
Staff Report//June 14, 2024//
Where a defendant challenged her sentence in a drug case, there was no procedural error in the district court’s factual finding that the defendant distributed a fentanyl-laced pill to victim, and the court sufficiently explained the basis for its sentence, which was not substantively unreasonable.
Judgment is affirmed.
U.S. v. Ahmed (MLW No. 81615/Case No. 23-2716 – 9 pages) (U.S. Court of Appeals, 8th Circuit, per curiam) Appealed from U.S. District Court, District of Nebraska, Gerrard, J. (Toni M. Leija-Wilson, Lincoln, NE argued for appellant) (Matthew R. Molsen, Lincoln, NE argued for appellee).
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