Legal Opinion
United States v. Thomas Peterson
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided April 4, 2018No. 16-4288PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SHEPHERD, Circuit Judge.
Defendant Thomas Peterson, a former probation officer, appeals his conviction on four counts of the deprivation of his female probationers' civil rights in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 242 and his subsequent sentence of 108 months imprisonment. Peterson argues: (1) there was insufficient evidence to support his convictions; (2) the district court 1 erred in rejecting his theory of defense instruction; (3) the district court procedurally erred in calculating his sentence; and (4) his sentence is substantively unreasonable. We disagree and affirm Peterson's conviction and…
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