United States v. Lisenbery, No. 16-3084 (8th Cir. 2017)
Annotate this CaseThe Eighth Circuit affirmed defendant's 180 month sentence after he pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine. The court held that the district court did not abuse its discretion by discussing two paragraphs in the presentence report; the district court did not clearly err in weighing the relevant factors when it imposed the sentence; the court rejected defendant's argument that his sentence created an unwarranted disparity among similarly situated defendants; and the district court appropriately weighed the 18 U.S.C. 3553(a) factors.
Court Description: Per Curiam - Before Gruender, Murphy and Kelly, Circuit Judges] Criminal case - Sentencing. While the district court discussed two objected-to incidents at sentencing, it also stated it was not considering the incidents in determining sentence, and defendant's argument that the court considered the incidents is rejected; the district court gave careful consideration to defendant's mitigating factors, and its balancing of the 3553(a) factors was not an abuse of the court's discretion.
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