Legal Opinion
United States v. Mees
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided May 31, 2011No. 10-3381PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WOLLMAN, Circuit Judge.
Ladarana Mees pleaded guilty to theft concerning programs receiving federal funds, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 666(a)(1)(A), and was sentenced to the statutory maximum of 120 months’ imprisonment. Mees appeals his sentence, asserting that the district court 1 committed procedural error when it departed upwards from the advisory U.S. Sentencing Guidelines range and when it considered ethnicity and other improper factors during sentencing. Mees also argues that the sentence is substantively unreasonable. We affirm.
I. Background
From 1993 until 2009, Mees was the finance…
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