United States v. Tong Moua, No. 17-2046 (8th Cir. 2018)
Annotate this CaseThe Eighth Circuit affirmed defendant's conviction and sentence for attempted bank robbery and bank robbery. The court held that the evidence was sufficient to support the jury's guilty verdicts where the jury determined that defendant was the person who robbed the Charter Bank and attempted to rob the Wells Fargo Bank. The court also held that defendant's 150 month sentence was substantively reasonable where the district court had wide latitude to weigh the 18 U.S.C. 3553(a) factors and did not abuse its discretion in sentencing defendant for crimes that were quite serious.
Court Description: Per Curiam - Before Gruender, Murphy and Kelly, Circuit Judges] Criminal case - Criminal law and sentencing. This opinion is being filed by Judge Gruender and Judge Kelly pursuant to the provisions of 8th Cir. R. 47E following Judge Murphy's death. Evidence was sufficient to support defendant's bank robbery convictions; defendant's within-guidelines range sentence was not substantively unreasonable or an abuse of the court's discretion.
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