United States Eighth Circuit

Defendant's conviction for knowingly failing to register as a sex offender is affirmed where: 1) defendant raised an issue of fact -- whether he knowingly violated 18 U.S.C. section 2250 -- not an issue of law warranting dismissal of the indictment; and 2) because Congress deliberately chose to impose longer terms of supervised release on persons convicted of certain sex offenses, including Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act offenses, the district court’s imposition of a fifteen-year term was not a substantively unreasonable abuse of discretion in this case.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/20/2010
• Published 12/20/2010

Judges

• James B. Loken

Court

• United States Eighth Circuit

Counsel