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Parties Involved:
Louis Sayles
Appellant
United States of America
Appellee

Document Text:

United States Court of Appeals

For the Eighth Circuit

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No. 15-1212

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United States of America

lllllllllllllllllllll Plaintiff - Appellee

v.

Louis Sayles

lllllllllllllllllllll Defendant - Appellant

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Appeal from United States District Court 

for the Western District of Missouri - Kansas City

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 Submitted: June 16, 2015

Filed: June 18, 2015

[Unpublished]

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Before WOLLMAN, LOKEN, and BENTON, Circuit Judges.

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PER CURIAM.

At a supervised-release revocation hearing, Louis Sayles admitted to the

district court that he had committed several Grade C violations of his release

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The Honorable Howard F. Sachs, United States DistrictJudge for the Western 1

District of Missouri.

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conditions while serving a second period of supervised release. The court revoked

supervised release, and after hearing argument from both sides as to an appropriate

revocation sentence and giving Sayles the opportunity for allocution, the court

sentenced him to 15 months in prison with no additional supervised release. On

appeal, Sayles contends that the sentence is substantively unreasonable because the

district court did not adequately consider the 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) sentencing factors. 

After careful review ofthe district court’s remarks at the revocation hearing, we reject

Sayles’s argument, and conclude that the court did not abuse its discretion. See

United States v. Miller, 557 F.3d 910, 915-16 (8th Cir. 2009) (standard of review). 

The judgment is affirmed, and we grant counsel leave to withdraw.

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