Legal Opinion
United States v. Lori Wisecarver
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided December 20, 2018No. 17-3606PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SHEPHERD, Circuit Judge.
Lori Ann Wisecarver pled guilty to second-degree murder in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 1111 (a) and 1153. The district court 1 granted the government's request for an upward departure or an upward variance, sentencing Wisecarver to 480 months imprisonment. She appeals, alleging her sentence is substantively unreasonable. Having jurisdiction pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 3742 and 28 U.S.C. § 1291 , we affirm.
In 2014, Wisecarver and her husband received custody of J.L., then about two years old, based on a distant family relationship. J.L. and his siblings had been removed from…
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