United States v. Staten, No. 19-2812 (8th Cir. 2021)
Annotate this CaseThe Eighth Circuit affirmed the district court's revocation of defendant's supervised release, concluding that the government established by a preponderance of the evidence that defendant had violated the terms of his supervised release by committing a new offense. In this case, although the district court acknowledged that there was no one piece of information that was the proverbial smoking gun, it found that a combination of all of the pieces of evidence established that defendant had participated in one or more bank robberies. The court also concluded that the district court did not abuse its discretion by imposing defendant's sentence where the district court sufficiently considered the 18 U.S.C. 3553(a) factors and did not rely on an improper factor or commit a clear error of judgment.
Court Description: [Per Curiam - Before Colloton, Melloy, and Kelly, Circuit Judges] Criminal case - Criminal law and sentencing. The government established by a preponderance of the evidence that defendant had violated the terms of his supervised release by committing a new offense; the sentence imposed upon the revocation of defendant's supervised release was substantively reasonable.
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