United States v. Douglas, No. 19-30488 (5th Cir. 2020)
Annotate this CaseDefendant appealed his sentence imposed after he pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy under 18 U.S.C. 371 to commit a deprivation of civil rights, an offense defined by 18 U.S.C. 242. The Fifth Circuit affirmed the district court's application of a four-level dangerous-weapon enhancement, a three-level bodily injury enhancement, and a six-level public official or color-of-law enhancement. The court held that the district court did not procedurally err in sentencing defendant, and that the district court did not err in denying defendant's request for a downward variance. In this case, defendant failed to demonstrate that his within-guidelines sentence was substantively unreasonable, and the district court expressly acknowledged its consideration of defendant's arguments before imposing a 60-month sentence.
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