Legal Opinion
United States v. Ronald Donelson, Also Known as Essie Donelson
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided June 13, 2006No. 05-4330PublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MURPHY, Circuit Judge.
Ronald “Essie” Donelson was convicted by a jury for being a felon in possession of a firearm after firing ten rounds from a stolen semiautomatic firearm at a group of four individuals. He was sentenced by the district court 1 to 120 months in prison, the statutory maximum. Donelson appeals both his conviction and sentence, arguing that his pretrial identification by one of the shooting victims should have been suppressed, that his conviction was not supported by sufficient evidence, and that the district court erred in departing upward when calculating his advisory…
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