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Every decision we've filed under Criminal.
The United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit affirmed the convictions and sentences of Philip Beck, Florence Beck, and Joshua Martinez in a drug conspiracy and possession case involving a five-pound shipment of methamphetamine.
The United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit affirmed the conviction and sentence of Gary Duane Cool. The court found no plain error in the district court's acceptance of Cool's guilty plea to drug trafficking charges.
The Eighth Circuit affirmed a substantive sentence imposed on a defendant who pleaded guilty to a firearm offense. The court found the district court did not abuse its discretion by imposing a sentence above the Guidelines range based on an individualized assessment.
The Eleventh Circuit affirmed the drug conspiracy and possession convictions of Philip Beck, Florence Beck, and Joshua Martinez, rejecting challenges to evidence admission and sentencing. The court held that the defendants' confrontation and evidentiary objections were either unpreserved or lacked merit under controlling precedent.
The Eighth Circuit affirmed Corey Deandra Thomas's substantive sentence, ruling that the district court did not abuse its discretion by imposing an upward variance. The appellate court found the judge properly weighed all statutory sentencing factors through an individualized assessment of the offense and the defendant's history.
The United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit affirmed the convictions and sentences of three defendants involved in a methamphetamine conspiracy.
The United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit affirmed the conviction and sentence of a defendant convicted of possessing a firearm as a felon. The court found no meritorious grounds for appeal and upheld the district court's determination that the sentence was substantively reasonable.
The Fifth Circuit affirmed a felon-in-possession sentence but vacated part of the judgment due to a discrepancy between the oral pronouncement and written judgment. The court held that the realistic probability test remains applicable to state drug convictions despite recent Supreme Court rulings.
The Eighth Circuit affirmed the sentence imposed on Melvin Navarro Morgan for drug and firearm offenses. The court granted counsel leave to withdraw after finding no non-frivolous issues for appeal.
The Tenth Circuit affirmed a conviction for possessing methamphetamine with intent to distribute, ruling that the defendant forfeited his challenge to the exclusion of video recordings. Because the defendant failed to preserve the evidentiary issue under Federal Rule of Evidence 106, the court applied a plain error standard and found no manifest injustice.