United States Eighth Circuit

Defendant's sentence for possession of pseudoephedrine while knowing or having reasonable cause to believe it would be used to manufacture methamphetamine is affirmed where: 1) given the number and nature of defendant's unscored convictions, there was no error, plain or otherwise, in the district court's imposition of an upward departure; and 2) the court of appeals' careful review of the record and defendant's sentence revealed no abuse of the district court's considerable sentencing discretion and no basis for concluding defendant's within-Guidelines sentence was substantively unreasonable.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/10/2010
• Published 06/10/2010

Judges

• RILEY, Chief Judge., Before RILEY, Chief Judge, COLLOTON and BENTON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eighth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Mark C. Mayer, Cedar Rapids, IA, for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Daniel A. Chatham, Cedar Rapids, IA, for appellee.