United States v. Edmonds

The Eighth Circuit affirmed defendant's sentence imposed after he pleaded guilty to five counts of distribution of a controlled substance. The court held that the district court did not err by departing upward due to defendant's extensive criminal history in light of the seriousness of the crimes. Furthermore, the district court did not err by imposing an upward variance based on the seriousness of the instant offenses where the undisputed evidence established that defendant sold heroin on multiple occasions that contained fentanyl analogs unsafe for human consumption. Finally, the district court did not abuse its discretion by imposing a substantively unreasonable sentence. View "United States v. Edmonds" on Justia Law