United States Eighth Circuit

Sentence is vacated and remanded where the district court applied an enhancement under the sentencing guidelines for possession of firearms in connection with the separate offense of felony possession of methamphetamine but failed to make a finding as to whether the firearms facilitated or had the potential to facilitate defendant's felony drug possession offense.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/06/2009
• Published 03/06/2009

Judges

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

Court

• United States Eighth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• James P. Dalton, Forrest City, AR, pro se.


• For Appellees:
  
• Michael Ray Bearden, Blytheville, AR, for Plaintiff-Appellee., Keith D. Sorrell, AUSA, Cape Girardeau, MO, for Defendant-Appellant.