United States Eighth Circuit

Defendant's sentence following the revocation of his supervised release is affirmed where: 1) the district court had valid and sufficient reasons to disbelieve defendant's explanation for his positive marijuana tests; 2) there was no plain error in the district court's explanation or weighing of the sentencing factors; and 3) there was no abuse of the district court's considerable sentencing discretion and no basis for concluding defendant's below-Guidelines sentence was substantively unreasonable.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/30/2010
• Published 07/30/2010

Judges

• William J. Riley

Court

• United States Eighth Circuit

Counsel