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Parties Involved:
Michael D. Hancock
Appellant
United States of America
Appellee

Document Text:

United States Court of Appeals

For the Eighth Circuit

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No. 14-3257

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United States of America

lllllllllllllllllllll Plaintiff - Appellee

v.

Michael D. Hancock

lllllllllllllllllllll Defendant - Appellant

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Appeal from United States District Court 

for the Western District of Missouri - Springfield

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 Submitted: February 10, 2015

Filed: March 23, 2015

[Unpublished]

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Before LOKEN, COLLOTON, and KELLY, Circuit Judges.

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PER CURIAM.

Michael Hancock was serving the supervised-release portion of his federal

criminal sentence when his probation officer filed a violation report with the district

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court alleging that Hancock had violated several supervised-release conditions. 

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Following a hearing, the district court concluded that Hancock had violated his

release conditions and revoked supervised release, imposing a revocation sentence

of 11 months in prison and two years of supervised release. For reversal, Hancock

argues that the court committed plain error in sentencing him because the court gave

significant weight to one of his prior convictions.

After careful review, we find no abuse of discretion, see United States v.

Miller, 557 F.3d 910, 915-16 (8th Cir. 2009) (standard of review), much less plain

error, and we affirm the judgment. Counsel’s motion to withdraw is granted, but we

direct counsel to inform appellant about the procedures for filing a petition for

rehearing and for certiorari.

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The Honorable Gary A. Fenner, United States District Judge for the Western 1

District of Missouri.

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