United States v. Marshall, No. 16-4499 (8th Cir. 2018)
Annotate this CaseThe Eighth Circuit affirmed defendant's sentence after he pleaded guilty to making a false statement to a government agency and aggravated identity theft. The court held that the district court did not procedurally err by basing the sentence on erroneous findings and unconstitutional factors. In this case, the district court was not obligated to credit defendant's claim that he absconded from supervision in California because he feared the "mob" and defendant's argument that he was punished for indigence was unsupported. The court also held that the sentence was substantively reasonable where the district court weighed the 18 U.S.C. 3553(a) sentencing factors, and the district court's upward variance going from 12 months to 24 months when the statutory maximum was 60 months was reasonable.
Court Description: Per Curiam - Before Smith, Chief Judge, and Arnold and Kelly, Circuit Judges] Criminal case - Sentencing. The facts upon which the district court relied in its sentencing determination were undisputed, and the record does not support defendant's argument that the court relied on disputed or erroneous facts; the district court was not obligated to credit defendant's claim that he absconded from supervision in California because he feared the "mob;" argument that the court unconstitutionally punished him for indigence was unsupported by legal argument and is rejected; the sentence imposed was not an abuse of the district court's discretion and was not substantively unreasonable.
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