United States v. Deshawn Myrick, No. 15-3153 (8th Cir. 2016)

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Court Description: Per Curiam - Before Loken, Murphy and Bye, Circuit Judges] Criminal case - Sentencing. Sentence imposed upon the revocation of defendant's supervised release was not substantively unreasonable. [ January 27, 2016

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United States Court of Appeals For the Eighth Circuit ___________________________ No. 15-3153 ___________________________ United States of America lllllllllllllllllllll Plaintiff - Appellee v. Deshawn Myrick, also known as Ricky Cooper, also known as Shakey lllllllllllllllllllll Defendant - Appellant ____________ Appeal from United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa - Davenport ____________ Submitted: January 18, 2016 Filed: January 28, 2016 [Unpublished] ____________ Before LOKEN, MURPHY, and BYE, Circuit Judges. ____________ PER CURIAM. At a supervised-release revocation hearing, the district court1 found that Deshawn Myrick had committed several Grade C violations of his release conditions 1 The Honorable Stephanie M. Rose, United States District Judge for the Southern District of Iowa. while serving a term of supervised release on a federal criminal sentence. The court revoked supervised release and imposed a revocation sentence of 4 months in prison and 56 months of supervised release. On appeal, Myrick contends that the new supervised release term is substantively unreasonable. Upon careful review of the record, including the district court’s comments at the revocation hearing about Myrick’s criminal history, substance abuse, and supervised-release violations, we conclude that the court did not abuse its discretion. See United States v. Asalati, 615 F.3d 1001, 1006 (8th Cir. 2010) (standard of review). The judgment is affirmed, and we grant counsel leave to withdraw. ______________________________ -2-

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