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Where a defendant challenged a special condition of supervised release that prohibited him from associating with convicted felons without permission from a probation officer, arguing that the condition barred him from contact with his brother, a convicted felon, the defendant ...

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Defendant pleaded guilty to sex-trafficking offenses and was sentenced to an above-guidelines sentence as recommended under the terms of defendant’s plea agreement. On appeal, defendant challenged the substantive reasonableness of his sentence. Where the district court adequately considered the statutory ...

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Where a defendant argued that the court should have ordered treatment rather than incarceration when he was sentenced after admitting to violations of conditions of probation, the defendant missed five court-ordered treatment sessions while on probation, so the court had ...

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Where a defendant challenged the sentence imposed after the revocation of his probation, the district court did not err in imposing the sentence because the court justified the decision by giving supporting reasons. Judgment is affirmed. U.S. v. Stone (MLW ...

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Where a defendant challenged the substantive reasonableness of his sentence in a methamphetamine case, the district court expressly considered the defendant’s difficult upbringing but explained that his recent criminal history outweighed his mistreatment, so the decision to deny the request ...

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  Where a defendant challenged his sentence after he pleaded guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm, the district court correctly assessed five criminal history points for a robbery conviction, and the judgment is affirmed because the ...

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Where a defendant challenged his enhanced sentence as an armed career criminal based on three prior Wisconsin convictions for burglary, the relevant case is no longer good law, so the convictions do not qualify as violent felonies under the act, ...

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Where a defendant in a drug and firearm case challenged the denial of his motion to suppress, the judgment is affirmed because the officer was justified in stopping the defendant’s car because he was told to do so by a ...

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Before beginning a life term of supervised release in Nebraska, defendant moved to transfer jurisdiction over his supervised release to Minnesota and moved to modify the conditions of his supervised release. The district court denied defendant’s motion. Where defendant had ...

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Defendant pleaded guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm and was sentenced to 180 months’ imprisonment and three years’ supervised release. Upon resentencing, defendant was sentenced to time served and commenced his supervised release. Defendant’s supervised release ...

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Defendant was sentenced to 20 years’ imprisonment for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute 5 or more grams of crack cocaine. The Fair Sentencing Act, which was later made retroactive by the First Step Act, increased the threshold for ...

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