Defendant pleaded guilty to child exploitation and child pornography. The district court sentenced him to a within-guidelines sentence. On appeal, defendant challenged the district court’s application of sentencing enhancements and argued that the district court imposed a substantively unreasonable sentence. ...

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Defendant pleaded guilty to drug and firearms offenses pursuant to a plea agreement containing an appeal waiver. Defendant appealed from the district court’s imposition of a guidelines-range sentence, challenging the factual basis for his guilty plea and the validity of ...

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  Defendant pled guilty to bank robbery and the district court sentenced him to a within-Guidelines sentence of 108 months’ incarceration. On appeal, defendant argued that his sentence was substantively unreasonable, contending that the district emphasized aggravating factors at the ...

Tagged with: Bank Robbery Criminal Law Substantive Reasonableness of Sentence Within-Guidelines Range Sentence