United States v. Covert

OPINION OF THE COURT

McKEE, Circuit Judge.

The defendant appeals from the sentence of incarceration which was imposed following his plea of guilty to violating the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, 16 U.S.C. § 703. For the reasons that follow, we will affirm.

Inasmuch as we write only for the parties, we need not set forth the facts underlying this appeal except as maybe necessary to our brief discussion. The defendant first claims that the sentencing court committed legal error by imposing a sentence that was, at least partially, the result of the government’s letter writing campaign. However, the…