Sentencing – Sentencing after revocation

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U.S. Court of Appeals For the Seventh Circuit

Criminal

Sentencing – Sentencing after revocation

A four-month sentence imposed after revocation of supervised release was not unreasonable.

“Jones has never directed this court ‘to anything specific that the district court failed to consider or take into account.’ Pollock, 757 F.3d at 591. The crux of his argument is only that his violations were minor, and that ‘some of the things that he’s done are good,’ (Tr. 11/26/13, p.16) and that he is therefore not deserving of even the lowest end sentence and the term of supervised release imposed. But this is just the type of discretionary decision that belongs to a district court judge. Despite being given a second chance by his low-end sentence on the merits, Jones could not keep himself in line while on supervised release. The district court felt that the low-end sentence of four months imprisonment followed by thirty-six months of supervised release would get Jones’s attention and keep him on the straight and narrow. We see no reason to disagree.”

Affirmed.

13-3673 U.S. v. Jones

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Central District of Illinois, Mihm, J., Rovner, J.

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