Defendant pleaded guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm pursuant to a plea agreement, after defendant shot and killed another individual after he attacked defendant at his home. As part of the agreement, the government declined to ...

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Defendant pleaded guilty to being a drug user in possession of a firearm. Defendant’s presentence report included a four-level sentencing enhancement for possessing a firearm in connection with distribution of marijuana. The district court overruled defendant’s objection to the enhancement ...

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Defendant was present during a murder and helped the murderer to clean the victim’s body of evidence and dispose of the body. Defendant pleaded guilty to being an accessory to second-degree murder. The district court found the applicable advisory guidelines ...

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  Where a defendant challenged his sentence in a distribution case arguing that the district court erred when it departed and varied upward from the advisory guidelines, the judgment is affirmed because the court analyzed the seriousness of the crime ...

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Defendant pleaded guilty to domestic assault. At sentencing, the district court found defendant’s guidelines range to be 30 to 37 months. The court upward departed, concluding defendant’s criminal-history category under-represented the seriousness of his criminal history and imposed a one-month ...

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U.S. v. Lovato (MLW No. 70915/Case No. 16-3708 – 4 pages) (U.S. Court of Appeals, 8th Circuit, Colloton, J.)

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U.S. v. Taylor (MLW No. 70498/Case No. 16-1599 – 4 pages) (U.S. Court of Appeals, 8th Circuit, per curiam)

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U.S. v. Sullivan (MLW No. 70394/Case No. 16-3163 – 9 pages) (U.S. Court of Appeals, 8th Circuit, per curiam)

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U.S. v. Running Shield (MLW No. 69535/Case No. 15-2341 – 7 pages) (U.S. Court of Appeals, 8th Circuit, Gritzner, J.)

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U.S. v. McKay (MLW No. 67323/Case No. 14-1398 – 8 pages) (U.S. Court of Appeals, 8th Circuit, Wollman, J.)

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U.S. v. Outlaw (MLW No. 65326/Case No. 12-3577 – 6 pages) (U.S. Court of Appeals, 8th Circuit, Phillips, J.)

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