Legal Opinion

United States v. Maurice Speights

Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

Decided February 9, 2018No. 17-30043UnpublishedCited by 1 opinion

1Opinion of the Court

PER CURIAM: *

A jury found Maurice Speights guilty of committing sexual abuse under 18 U.S.C. § 2242(2). The district court sentenced Speights to 121 months’ imprisonment, followed by five years’ supervised release, and ordered him to pay $3,570 in restitution. On appeal, Speights challenges the sufficiency of the evidence supporting his conviction, the legal and evidentiary bases for the restitution order, and the substantive reasonableness of his sentence. We affirm.

I. BACKGROUND

On the evening of October 19, 2013, Tiffany Scott, then a first lieutenant in the army, attended a gathering of…

2Cases cited13 opinions

  1. Jackson v. VirginiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
  2. Paroline v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 2014
  3. United States v. RuizCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 2010
  4. United States v. Nicholas HarrisCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 2012
  5. United States v. HuertaCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1999

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3Cited by1 opinion

  1. United States v. WhitleyDistrict Court, E.D. Illinois · 2019

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