Legal Opinion

United States v. Cowan Godfrey

Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit

Decided July 25, 2017No. 16-3612PublishedCited by 34 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

GRUENDER, Circuit Judge.

Cowan Godfrey pleaded guilty to one count of being a felon in possession of ammunition, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1). The district court 1 sentenced him to 120 months’ imprisonment followed by three years of supervised release. God- frey appeals his sentence, arguing that the district court committed procedural error, imposed a substantively unreasonable sentence, and imposed an improper special condition of supervised release. Fo.r the following reasons, we affirm.

I. BACKGROUND

On April 1, 2015, police officers responded to a report of shots fired- in Jackson…

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