Legal Opinion
United States v. Mersed Dautovic
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided August 14, 2014No. 13-1493, 13-1145PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WOLLMAN, Circuit Judge.
A jury found Des Moines, Iowa, Police Officer Mersed Dautovic guilty of willfully depriving Octavius Bonds of the right to be free from the use of unreasonable force, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 2 and 242, and knowingly falsifying a police report with the intent to obstruct justice, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 2 and 1519. Dautovic was sentenced to 20 months’ imprisonment. The government appeals, arguing that the sentence is substantively unreasonable. We reverse and remand for resentencing. We deny Dautovic’s conditional cross-appeal, wherein he argues that the…
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