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Parties Involved:
United States of America
Appellee
Robert Samuel Wilkinson
Appellant

Document Text:

United States Court of Appeals

FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT

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No. 06-2866

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United States of America, *

*

Appellee, *

* Appeal from the United States 

v. * District Court for the

* Northern District of Iowa

Robert Samuel Wilkinson, *

* [UNPUBLISHED]

Appellant. *

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Submitted: February 20, 2008

Filed: April 16, 2008

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Before WOLLMAN, MURPHY, and BYE, Circuit Judges.

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PER CURIAM.

Following our affirmance of Wilkinson’s sentence, United States v. Wilkinson,

225 Fed. Appx. 413 (8th Cir. 2007), the United States Supreme Court vacated our

judgment and remanded the case for reconsideration in light of Gall v. United States,

128 S. Ct. 586 (2007). Wilkinson v. United States, 128 S. Ct. 1064 (2008).

Although we consider it to be a very close question, we conclude that, based

upon the government’s and the district court’s comments at sentencing regarding the

necessity of the existence of extraordinary circumstance as a prerequisite to a

departure, the case should be remanded for resentencing in light of the Supreme

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Court’s disapproval of the restrictive views our court had expressed regarding a

district court’s discretion to depart below recommended Guideline sentences.

Accordingly, the sentence is vacated, and the case is remanded to the district

court for resentencing. We, of course, express no view regarding the sentence to be

imposed.

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