United States v. Louis Sayles, No. 15-1212 (8th Cir. 2015)
Annotate this CaseCourt Description: Per Curiam - Before Wollman, Loken and Benton, Circuit Judges] Criminal case - Sentencing. Sentence imposed upon the revocation of defendant's supervised release was not substantively unreasonable.
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United States Court of Appeals For the Eighth Circuit ___________________________ No. 15-1212 ___________________________ United States of America lllllllllllllllllllll Plaintiff - Appellee v. Louis Sayles lllllllllllllllllllll Defendant - Appellant ____________ Appeal from United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri - Kansas City ____________ Submitted: June 16, 2015 Filed: June 18, 2015 [Unpublished] ____________ Before WOLLMAN, LOKEN, and BENTON, Circuit Judges. ____________ PER CURIAM. At a supervised-release revocation hearing, Louis Sayles admitted to the district court1 that he had committed several Grade C violations of his release 1 The Honorable Howard F. Sachs, United States District Judge for the Western District of Missouri. conditions while serving a second period of supervised release. The court revoked supervised release, and after hearing argument from both sides as to an appropriate revocation sentence and giving Sayles the opportunity for allocution, the court sentenced him to 15 months in prison with no additional supervised release. On appeal, Sayles contends that the sentence is substantively unreasonable because the district court did not adequately consider the 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) sentencing factors. After careful review of the district court’s remarks at the revocation hearing, we reject Sayles’s argument, and conclude that the court did not abuse its discretion. See United States v. Miller, 557 F.3d 910, 915-16 (8th Cir. 2009) (standard of review). The judgment is affirmed, and we grant counsel leave to withdraw. ______________________________ -2-
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