United States v. McQueen, No. 12-10840 (11th Cir. 2013)
Annotate this CaseDefendant McQueen, a Sergeant at the South Florida Reception Center (SFRC), appealed his conviction for conspiring to deprive several inmates of their right to be free from cruel and unusual punishment, and for obstruction of justice. Defendant Dawkins, a corrections officer at the SFRC, appealed his conviction for obstruction of justice. The court concluded that the evidence was sufficient to convict defendants; the district court did not err in denying defendants' request to give the jury two defense instructions regarding accomplices, informers, or immunized witnesses, and multiple conspiracies; and the government did not improperly bolster the credibility of a corrections officer where any claimed error did not affect defendants' substantial rights. The court concluded, however, that defendants' sentences were substantively unreasonable because they were wholly insufficient to achieve the purposes of sentencing set forth by Congress in 18 U.S.C. 3553(a). Accordingly, the court vacated each sentence and remanded for resentencing.
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