United States Eighth Circuit

Defendant's drug conspiracy sentence is vacated where the Supreme Court's decisions in Gall and Burns changed the law of the circuit and granted authority to district courts that they lacked under the Eighth Circuit's pre-Gall precedents, including the authority to make certain major reductions in the absence of extraordinary assistance.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/12/2009
• Published 11/12/2009

Judges

• COLLOTON, Circuit Judge., Before COLLOTON and GRUENDER, Circuit Judges, and GOLDBERG, Judge.

Court

• United States Eighth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Jay E. Denne, Sioux City, IA, for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Shawn Wehde, AUSA, Sioux City, IA, for appellee.