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Every decision we've filed under Criminal.
The Fifth Circuit dismissed an appeal by a defendant challenging conditions of his supervised release. The court held that a plea agreement waiver barred the appeal because the challenge did not concern a sentence exceeding the statutory maximum.
The Fifth Circuit granted an unopposed motion to reform a district court judgment to correct clerical errors. The court clarified that the revocation judgment was based solely on violations alleged in specific petitions.
The Fifth Circuit affirmed the denial of a federal prisoner's motion for a sentence reduction under eighteen U.S.C. Section three thousand five hundred eighty-two subsection C two. The court held that Amendment eight hundred twenty-one of the Sentencing Guidelines does not apply to tax offenses or the specific enhancements used in this case.
The Fifth Circuit granted a motion by the Federal Public Defender to withdraw from representing the defendant. The court dismissed the appeal after finding no nonfrivolous issues for review.
The Sixth Circuit affirmed a district court's denial of a prisoner's motion for sentence reduction. The court held that the district judge applied the correct legal standard despite quoting language from a different statutory context.
The Seventh Circuit affirmed a drug trafficking defendant's sentence, rejecting claims that the government suppressed evidence regarding his leadership role. The court also upheld a sentencing enhancement for maintaining a drug premises, distinguishing the case from recent precedents based on the defendant's ownership and control.
The United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit affirmed the denial of a motion to suppress evidence found during a traffic stop. The court held that a large spiderweb crack across a vehicle's windshield provided probable cause to stop the driver under South Dakota law.
The United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit affirmed the criminal judgment and sentence of Tyrone Kelly. The court rejected Kelly's challenges to his drug trafficking conviction and the resulting forty-five-month imprisonment term.
The Fourth Circuit affirmed a federal sentence that included a career-offender enhancement based on prior Delaware drug convictions. The court held that the state statutes punished completed deliveries, even when those deliveries involved attempted transfers.
The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit denied petitions for rehearing and affirmed the dismissal of charges against Boeing following a non-prosecution agreement, ruling that challenges to a prior deferred prosecution agreement were moot.