Case Name: UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. James Edward KRAL, Appellant
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2009-05-27
Citations: 325 F. App'x 480
Docket Number: No. 08-2259
Parties: UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. James Edward KRAL, Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 325
Pages: 480–481

Head Matter:
UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. James Edward KRAL, Appellant.
No. 08-2259.
United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.
Submitted: March 13, 2009.
Filed: May 27, 2009.
Jeffrey S. Paulsen, U.S. Attorney’s Office, Minneapolis, MN, for Appellee.
Andrea K. George, Federal Public Defender’s Office, Minneapolis, MN, for Appellant.
James Edward Krai, Elk River, MN, pro se.
Before MURPHY, MELLOY, and SHEPHERD, Circuit Judges.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
James Krai appeals the 12-month sentence the district court imposed after he violated the conditions of his supervised release. We affirm.
Athough the district court did not make a mechanical recitation of the section 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) factors and did not provide an expansive explanation of the sentence imposed, see United States v. Larison, 432 F.3d 921, 923 (8th Cir.2006) ("A district court need not mechanically list every § 3353(a) consideration when sentencing defendant upon revocation of supervised release."), the proceedings were procedurally adequate, see United States v. Petreikis, 551 F.3d 822, 824 (8th Cir.2009) (acknowledging that revocation sentence must be procedurally sound). The district court was well aware of Krai's violations of his supervised release conditions which led to an earlier revocation sentence of six months confinement. After his release from that revocation sentence, Krai continued to refuse to abide by the supervised release conditions. At the second revocation hearing which resulted in the sentence being appealed here, the court provided Krai several opportunities to agree to abide by the supervised release conditions and not face additional incarceration, and Krai rejected those opportunities. See 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a)(1) (factor to be considered includes "the history and characteristics of the defendant"); id. § 3583(e) (permitting imposition of revocation sentence after consideration of certain § 3553(a) factors).
We further conclude that Krai's 12-month sentence was not substantively unreasonable. Accordingly, we affirm. See 8th Cir. R. 47B.
. The Honorable James M. Rosenbaum, United States District Judge for the District of Minnesota.