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Every decision we've filed under Criminal.
The Eighth Circuit affirmed a district court's denial of a sentence reduction motion for a defendant convicted of second-degree murder. The appellate court found no abuse of discretion in the lower court's weighing of the defendant's egregious offense conduct and ongoing disciplinary issues against his rehabilitative efforts.
The United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit granted a defendant's unopposed motion to remand his case for resentencing. The court vacated the original sentence and directed the district court to conduct proceedings necessary to resentence the defendant in accordance with the motion filed in this court.
The Eighth Circuit affirmed a district court's revocation of supervised release and imposition of a twenty-four-month prison sentence. The panel found the within-Guidelines-range sentence was not unreasonable and granted counsel leave to withdraw.
The Eleventh Circuit affirmed a seventy-two-month prison sentence for a defendant convicted of mail fraud and aggravated identity theft. The court held that the district court did not abuse its discretion in rejecting arguments based on national sentencing averages and mitigating factors.
The Third Circuit affirmed the appellant's drug trafficking and firearm convictions but vacated his mandatory life sentence for remand.
The Eleventh Circuit affirmed a defendant's sentence for drug conspiracy, rejecting her claim that the district court failed to properly weigh sentencing factors. The court held that the district court acted within its discretion by considering the defendant's health issues while emphasizing the need for deterrence.
The Eleventh Circuit affirmed the conviction of Albert Cole for drug distribution. The court rejected Cole's challenges regarding the nondisclosure of a confidential informant and the admission of recorded conversations and expert testimony on drug code words.
The Eleventh Circuit affirmed the convictions and sentence of Michael Christopher Rowser for conspiracy to commit bribery and fraud. The court held that circumstantial evidence was sufficient to prove the defendant's guilt and that the district court did not abuse its discretion in sentencing.
The Third Circuit affirmed the conviction of a taxpayer who submitted false financial disclosure forms to the IRS. The court held that intentionally omitting bank accounts from these forms constitutes an affirmative act of tax evasion within the statute of limitations.
The Fourth Circuit affirmed a district court's denial of a motion for sentence reduction under Section thirty-five hundred eighty-two, subsection C, paragraph two. The appellate court found no reversible error in the district court's explanation for rejecting the defendant's request for compassionate release.