United States v. Young, No. 11-1038 (8th Cir. 2011)
Annotate this CaseDefendant's supervised release was revoked when he failed to comply with a condition prohibiting him from consuming alcohol and was sentenced to eight months in prison. At issue was whether the district court committed procedural error and imposed a substantively unreasonable sentence. The court held that the district court did not commit procedural error where it simply gave more weight to the ample evidence of defendant's failure to comply with the alcohol conditions, his failure to tell the truth to the probation officer, and the previously futile efforts to get defendant to abstain from alcohol using less stringent consequences. The court also held that the district court did not abuse its discretion in imposing a sentence in the middle of defendant's advisory guidelines range given his numerous previous failures to comply with the supervised release conditions and the fact that the modification of his supervised release had not produced compliance.
Court Description: Criminal case - Sentencing. District court did not commit any procedural error in determining defendant's sentence for violation of his supervised release, and the sentence imposed was not unreasonable.
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