Where a defendant challenged his sentence after pleading guilty to a firearm offense, the district court properly calculated the base offense level, and the defendant failed to support his claim of diminished capacity, so the court properly denied the request ...

Tagged with: Base-Level Calculation Downward Departure sentencing

Defendant pleaded guilty to illegally reentering the country. Defendant faced a guidelines range of 46-57 months of incarceration. The district court declined to lower defendant’s criminal history score but granted a downward departure of three levels because applicable enhancements overstated ...

Tagged with: Downward Departure Illegal Reentry Substantive Reasonableness of Sentence

U.S. v. Jones (MLW No. 71420/Case No. 17-1710 – 3 pages) (U.S. Court of Appeals, 8th Circuit, Melloy, J.)

Tagged with: Career Offender Criminal Law Downward Departure sentencing