United States v. Samuel Scroggins

Defendant Samuel Scroggins appeals the district court’s sentence of two years incarceration imposed for his violation of his supervised release. Because the sentence was not plainly unreasonable, we affirm the court below.

In January of 1988, defendant pled guilty to theft of public money, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 641, for breaking into and stealing money from postal stamp vending machines. He was sentenced under the Sentencing Guidelines to one year in prison and a subsequent term of two years supervised release. 1 The conditions of the supervised release required that Scroggins, inter…