Legal Opinion

United States v. Sean Meadows

Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit

Decided August 8, 2017No. 16-3241PublishedCited by 20 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

SHEPHERD, Circuit Judge,

Sean Meadows orchestrated a seven-year Ponzi scheme during which he stole more than $10 million dollars from at least 69 victims. He pled guilty to eleven different counts, and the district court sentenced him to 300 months imprisonment. Thereafter, he appealed to this court arguing that the district court erred in applying certain sentencing enhancements and asserting that his sentence was substantively unreasonable. United States v. Meadows, 637 Fed.Appx. 255, 255 (8th Cir. 2016) (per curiam). Without reaching Meadows’s substantive arguments, we reversed and remanded…

2Cases cited19 opinions

  1. Gall v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 2007
  2. Pepper v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 2011
  3. Securities & Exchange Commission v. ZandfordSupreme Court of the United States · 2002
  4. Mader v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 2011
  5. United States v. NaftalinSupreme Court of the United States · 1979

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3Cited by20 opinions

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