United States v. Mitchell, No. 19-3384 (8th Cir. 2021)
Annotate this CaseThe Eighth Circuit affirmed the district court's revocation of defendant's supervised release and 24-month sentence. The court concluded that defendant has not shown that the district court clearly erred in its finding that he, more likely than not, committed a new state crime by committing a willful injury in violation of Iowa Code Sec. 708.4(1)-(2). Therefore, the district court did not abuse its discretion in revoking defendant's supervised release. The court also concluded that defendant's within-Guidelines sentence was substantively reasonable where the district court considered defendant's strong work ethic and consistent employment, but also considered his repeated supervised-release violations and his conduct in the alley fight. In this case, the district court did not abuse its discretion in weighing other sentencing factors more heavily.
Court Description: [Grasz, Author, with Loken and Kobes, Circuit Judges] Criminal case - Criminal law and sentencing. The district court did not abuse its discretion in revoking defendant's supervised release based on its determination that defendant had committed a new state law crime by committing a willful injury in violation of Iowa Code Sec. 708.4(1)-(2); the sentence imposed was not a violation of the court's sentencing discretion.
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