U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, 2020

United States v. Todd Tuttle

United States v. Todd Tuttle
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · Decided April 30, 2020

United States v. Todd Tuttle

Opinion

United States Court of Appeals For the Eighth Circuit ___________________________ No. 19-3459 ___________________________ United States of America lllllllllllllllllllllPlaintiff - Appellee v. Todd Allen Tuttle lllllllllllllllllllllDefendant - Appellant ____________ Appeal from United States District Court for the District of South Dakota - Sioux Falls ____________ Submitted: April 27, 2020 Filed: April 30, 2020 [Unpublished] ____________ Before LOKEN, ERICKSON, and STRAS, Circuit Judges. ____________ PER CURIAM.

Todd Tuttle appeals a within-Guidelines-range sentence of 10 months in prison for violating the conditions of supervised release. He challenges both the decision to revoke supervised release and the substantive reasonableness of the resulting sentence. His attorney also seeks permission to withdraw.

We conclude that the district court 1 did not abuse its discretion when it revoked supervised release. See United States v. Edwards, 400 F.3d 591, 592 (8th Cir. 2005) (per curiam) (holding that there was no abuse of discretion when the defendant admitted to violating a supervised-release condition). Nor is Tuttle’s sentence substantively unreasonable. See United States v. Miller, 557 F.3d 910, 917 (8th Cir. 2009) (applying an abuse-of-discretion standard); United States v. Perkins, 526 F.3d 1107, 1110 (8th Cir. 2008) (stating that a within-Guidelines-range sentence is presumptively reasonable). The record establishes that the district court sufficiently considered the statutory sentencing factors, 18 U.S.C. §§ 3553(a), 3583(e)(3), and did not rely on an improper factor or commit a clear error of judgment. See United States v. Larison, 432 F.3d 921, 923–24 (8th Cir. 2006).

Accordingly, we affirm the judgment and grant counsel permission to withdraw. ______________________________

The Honorable Lawrence L. Piersol, United States District Judge for the District of South Dakota. -2-

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