United States Eighth Circuit

A former deputy sheriff's sentence for conspiring to commit bribery concerning programs receiving federal funds is affirmed over a challenge to the sentence's reasonableness, including a claim that the district court improperly applied a presumption of reasonableness to the sentencing range recommended by the Guidelines.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/21/2008
• Published 02/21/2008

Judges

• WOLLMAN, Circuit Judge., Before WOLLMAN and BENTON, Circuit Judges, and DOTY, District Judge.

Court

• United States Eighth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Lenny Kagan, St. Louis, MO, for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• James E. Crowe, Jr., Assistant U.S. Attorney, St. Louis, MO, for appellee.