United States v. Charles Williams, No. 15-1616 (8th Cir. 2015)

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Court Description: Per Curiam - Before Loken, Bowman and Murphy, Circuit Judges] Criminal case - Sentencing. Anders case. 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. 15-1616 ___________________________ United States of America lllllllllllllllllllll Plaintiff - Appellee v. Charles Wesley Williams lllllllllllllllllllll Defendant - Appellant ____________ Appeal from United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri - Jefferson City ____________ Submitted: October 5, 2015 Filed: October 14, 2015 [Unpublished] ____________ Before LOKEN, BOWMAN, and MURPHY, Circuit Judges. ____________ PER CURIAM. At a supervised-release revocation hearing, Charles Williams admitted to the district court1 that he had violated several of his release conditions while serving a 1 The Honorable Beth Phillips, United States District Judge for the Western District of Missouri. period of supervised release on a federal criminal sentence. The court revoked supervised release and imposed a revocation sentence of 21 months in prison--the bottom of the Chapter 7 revocation range--and 1 year of additional supervised release. On appeal, Williams contends that the sentence is substantively unreasonable because it is greater than necessary to comply with the purposes of 18 U.S.C. ยง 3553(a). After careful review, we 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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