United States v. Kendrick Dotstry ( 2018 )


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  •                  United States Court of Appeals
    For the Eighth Circuit
    ___________________________
    No. 18-1088
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    United States of America
    lllllllllllllllllllllPlaintiff - Appellee
    v.
    Kendrick Dotstry
    lllllllllllllllllllllDefendant - Appellant
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    Appeal from United States District Court
    for the District of Minnesota - St. Paul
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    Submitted: December 10, 2018
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    [Unpublished]
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    Before LOKEN, MELLOY, and ERICKSON, Circuit Judges.
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    PER CURIAM.
    Police responded to an emergency call reporting a man with a truck who was
    breaking windows and waiving and pointing a gun at a baby shower. When police
    arrived at the scene, they followed a truck matching the description in the call. The
    truck eventually stopped, and Defendant Kendrick Dotstry, also matching the
    description in the call, was driving. He eventually exited the vehicle unarmed and
    admitted to police that he had a firearm in the center console. In addition, police
    discovered 16 oxycodone pills not prescribed to the defendant. The defendant later
    pleaded guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm in violation of 18 U.S.C.
    § 922(g)(1).
    At sentencing, over objection, the district court1 adjusted the offense level
    upward by four levels pursuant to U.S.S.G. § 2K2.1(b)(6)(B) because the defendant
    possessed the firearm in connection with another felony offense. The district court
    also granted a three-level reduction for acceptance of responsibility, U.S.S.G.
    § 3E1.1, resulting in an adjusted advisory Guidelines range of 84 to 105 months. The
    defendant sought a downward variance, but the district court imposed a 96-month
    within-range sentence.
    In addition, the defendant committed the current offense while on supervised
    release. The district court revoked his supervised release and imposed a revocation
    sentence of 30 months’ imprisonment to run concurrently with his sentence for the
    firearm conviction. The revocation sentence reflected a downward variance in that
    U.S.S.G. § 7B1.3(f) provides any revocation sentence “shall be ordered to be served
    consecutively to any sentence of imprisonment that the defendant is serving.”
    The defendant appeals, arguing that the district court imposed a substantively
    unreasonable sentence for his § 922(g) conviction by failing to give more weight to
    (1) his disclosure of the firearm to police, or (2) several mitigating factors from his
    personal history. In making this challenge to the district court’s weighing of the 18
    U.S.C. § 3553(a) factors, however, he acknowledges that the district court expressly
    considered these very same factors. Having carefully reviewed the defendant’s
    arguments and the record in this case, we find no abuse of the district court’s
    1
    The Honorable Susan Richard Nelson, United States District Judge for the
    District of Minnesota.
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    substantial discretion in its weighing of the relevant factors or in its imposition of a
    within-range sentence. See United States v. Burns, 
    834 F.3d 887
    , 890 (8th Cir. 2016)
    (“We review the substantive reasonableness of a sentence under a deferential
    abuse-of-discretion standard, and we presume that a sentence imposed within the
    advisory guidelines range is reasonable.”).
    We affirm the judgment of the district court.2
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    2
    The pending motion for appointment of counsel, for reconsideration of clerk
    order denying motion to file supplemental brief, and for extension of time to file
    supplemental brief is denied.
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Document Info

Docket Number: 18-1088

Filed Date: 12/20/2018

Precedential Status: Non-Precedential

Modified Date: 12/20/2018