United States v. Key

EDITH H. JONES, Chief Judge:

Ravis Neal Key, after ingesting a cornucopia of intoxicating drugs, crashed a car into a vehicle driven by Sergeant Andre M. Araujo, who died as a result. Key pled guilty to intoxication manslaughter and now challenges his 216-month sentence, contending that the sentencing court failed to adequately explain its reasons for imposing an above-guidelines sentence and that the sentence is, in itself, substantively unreasonable. Finding no sentencing error, we affirm. We also hold that the Texas offense of intoxication manslaughter was properly assimilated as the crime…