Legal Opinion
United States v. Benton
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided December 13, 2010No. 10-1718PublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MURPHY, Circuit Judge.
Rickey Benton’s supervised release was revoked by the district court 1 which sentenced him to 27 months imprisonment for violating Iowa’s concealed weapon law and 9 months consecutive for several other offenses, to be followed by 12 months of supervised release. Benton appeals, arguing that the evidence was insufficient to find that he had violated the concealed weapon law and that the district court imposed an unreasonable sentence. We affirm.
Benton had pled guilty in 1996 to being a felon in possession of a firearm, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 922(g)(1) and 924(e)(1),…
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