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Parties Involved:
Allen Gaines
Appellant
United States of America
Appellee

Document Text:

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The Honorable Ronald E. Longstaff, Chief Judge, United States District Court

for the Southern District of Iowa.

United States Court of Appeals

FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT

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No. 04-1589

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United States of America, *

*

Appellee, *

* Appeal from the United States

v. * District Court for the Southern

* District of Iowa.

Allen Gaines, *

* [UNPUBLISHED]

Appellant. *

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Submitted: July 23, 2004

Filed: August 3, 2004

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Before MURPHY, FAGG, and SMITH, Circuit Judges.

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PER CURIAM. 

In this appeal following revocation of his supervised release, Allen Gaines

seeks reversal on the basis that the district court1

 denied him his right of allocution.

Having carefully reviewed the record, we conclude that Gaines’s right of

allocution was satisfied. See Fed. R. Crim. P. 32(i)(4); United States v. Patterson,

128 F.3d 1259, 1260-61 (8th Cir. 1997) (per curiam) (right of allocution applies to

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supervised-release-revocation hearing). Gaines testified at the hearing before

sentencing, at which time he made his views known regarding the alleged violations,

the progress he had made on supervision, and his desire to be continued on supervised

release without modification. See United States v. Kaniss, 150 F.3d 967, 969 (8th

Cir. 1998); United States v. Iversen, 90 F.3d 1340, 1345-46 (8th Cir. 1996)

(defendant was effectively granted allocution, even though court did not ask her if she

had anything to add regarding sentencing, where she testified on her own behalf such

that her views regarding sentencing were known and it was clear that she knew she

had right to speak on any subject prior to sentencing and availed herself of that right).

Accordingly, we affirm. 

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