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Criminal Law-Drug and Firearm Offenses-Downward Variance-Substantive Reasonableness of Sentence

Staff Report//June 4, 2026//

Criminal Law-Drug and Firearm Offenses-Downward Variance-Substantive Reasonableness of Sentence

Staff Report//June 4, 2026//

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Defendant appealed the sentence imposed following his guilty plea to drug and firearm offense, challenging the substantive reasonableness of the sentence.    

Where the district court did not abuse its discretion in declining to vary even further downward, the court upheld the sentence.   

Judgment is affirmed. 

U.S. v. Griffin (MLW No. 84845/Case No. 25-2724 – 2 pages) (U.S. Court of Appeals, 8th Circuit, per curiam) Appealed from U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Missouri, Clark, J. 


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