United States v. Darrel Henry, No. 12-3435 (8th Cir. 2013)
Annotate this CaseCourt Description: Criminal case - Sentencing. Ten-year term of supervision was not substantively unreasonable.
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United States Court of Appeals For the Eighth Circuit ___________________________ No. 12-3435 ___________________________ United States of America lllllllllllllllllllllAppellee v. Darrel Lee Henry lllllllllllllllllllllAppellant ____________ Appeal from United States District Court for the District of Nebraska ____________ Submitted: May 13, 2013 Filed: May 24, 2013 [Unpublished] ____________ Before SHEPHERD, ARNOLD, and MELLOY, Circuit Judges. ____________ PER CURIAM. After Darrel Henry pleaded guilty to failing to register as a sex offender under the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act, see 18 U.S.C. § 2250(a), the district court1 sentenced him to 15 months' incarceration and ten years of supervised release. Mr. Henry appeals, contending that his ten-year term of supervision is unreasonable. We review the substantive reasonableness of the length of supervision for an abuse of discretion. See United States v. Zoran, 682 F. 3d 1060, 1065 (8th Cir. 2012); United States v. Brewer, 628 F.3d 975, 978 (8th Cir. 2010), cert. denied, 132 S. Ct. 126 (2011). When setting a term of supervision, a district court must consider virtually all of the sentencing factors in 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a), see 18 U.S.C. § 3583(c), and Mr. Henry maintains that the district court "made a serious error in judgment in weighing" the § 3553(a) sentencing goals when setting his term at ten years. But district courts have "wide latitude to weigh the § 3553(a) factors in each case and assign some factors greater weight than others in determining an appropriate sentence." United States v. Bridges, 569 F.3d 374, 379 (8th Cir. 2009). Having carefully reviewed the record, we discern no basis for concluding that the district court abused its discretion in weighing the relevant factors or setting Mr. Henry's term of supervision, particularly given his "history and characteristics," 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a)(1), and "need for the sentence imposed" to provide him with "medical care ... [and] other correctional treatment in the most effective manner," 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a)(2). We note, moreover, that ten years of supervision is well below a term of life, which is Mr. Henry's statutory maximum. 18 U.S.C. § 3583(k); see Brewer, 628 F.3d at 978. Affirmed. ______________________________ 1 The Honorable Joseph F. Bataillon, United States District Judge for the District of Nebraska. -2-
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