United States v. Shawn Sorensen

BEAM, Circuit Judge.

Shawn Russell Sorensen appeals following his jury trial conviction and sentence, arguing that the district court 1 erred in failing sua sponte to exclude the testimony of the government's fingerprint expert, in determining that the government's error in initially misstating Sorensen's predicate offense was clerical and not substantive, and that the court's 2 imposition of life without parole in this case violates Sorensen's rights under the Eighth Amendment. We affirm.

*1063 I. BACKGROUND

On April 25, 2016, a United States Postal Inspector in Minneapolis applied for and received…