United States of America v. Jerome Davis Kent

United States Court of Appeals
For the Eighth Circuit
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No. 21-1885
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United States of America
lllllllllllllllllllllPlaintiff - Appellee
v.
Jerome Davis Kent
lllllllllllllllllllllDefendant - Appellant
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Appeal from United States District Court
for the District of South Dakota - Southern
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Submitted: September 14, 2021
Filed: September 17, 2021
[Unpublished]
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Before ERICKSON, GRASZ, and STRAS, Circuit Judges.
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PER CURIAM.
Jerome Davis Kent appeals a 16-month sentence he received for violating the
conditions of supervised release. Although the sentence was reduced to 7 months
after the district court1 credited him with time served, he still says it is too long.
1 The Honorable Karen E. Schreier, United States District Judge for the
District of South Dakota.

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We conclude that the sentence is substantively reasonable. See United States
v. Miller, 557 F.3d 910, 917 (8th Cir. 2009) (reviewing the reasonableness of a
revocation sentence for an abuse of discretion); 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.
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