Legal Opinion
United States v. Benjamin Pepper
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided March 20, 2014No. 13-2853PublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GRUENDER, Circuit Judge.
Benjamin Pepper pled guilty to possession of a firearm by an unlawful user of a controlled substance, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(3), and was sentenced to sixty months’ imprisonment. Pepper appeals his sentence, arguing that the district court 1 improperly calculated his advisory sentencing guidelines range. For the reasons explained below, we affirm.
On June 29, 2009, Union County, Arkansas sheriff deputies arrested Pepper after finding methamphetamine, marijuana, and four firearms in his car during a traffic stop. Pepper was charged in Arkansas state court for…
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