United States Eighth Circuit

Defendant's drug and money laundering sentence is affirmed where: 1) the doctrine of specialty did not operate to bar consideration of all pre-extradition conduct when determining a defendant's punishment for the extradited offense; 2) the district court properly calculated defendant's offense level and criminal history and correctly determined his advisory Guidelines sentencing range; and 3) the district court's discussion of the 18 U.S.C. section 3553(a) factors was sufficient to comply with 18 U.S.C. section 3584 and U.S.S.G. section 5G1.3.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/25/2010
• Published 02/25/2010

Judges

• SHEPHERD, Circuit Judge., Before WOLLMAN, RILEY, and SHEPHERD, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eighth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Jonathan Hammond, argued, Cedar Rapids, IA, for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Patrick J. Reinert, AUSA, argued, Cedar Rapids, IA, for appellee.