8th Circuit: Trial Court Did Not Err In Relying On Man’s Tribal Convictions

(January 9, 2024, 8:29 AM EST) -- ST. LOUIS — A federal court did not err by upwardly departing from sentencing guidelines based on a man’s 26 prior tribal court convictions because courts are entitled to do so and the court adequately explained its reasoning for increasing the man’s sentence, an Eighth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel found in affirming the man’s 90-month sentence....