141084P.pdf   04/10/2015  United States  v.  Lodgy Jackson
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  14-1084
                          and No:  14-1488
   U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri - St. Louis   
   [PUBLISHED] [Wollman, Author, with Smith and Shepherd, Circuit Judges] 
   Criminal case - Criminal law and sentencing. The district court's advice 
   to defendant Jackson at the change-of-plea hearing that he could not 
   withdraw his plea even if the court did not impose the sentence the 
   government recommended fulfilled the court's obligations under Rule 
   11(c)(3)(B); Jackson's 400-month sentence was not substantively 
   unreasonable; no error in applying the first-degree-murder cross-reference 
   set forth in Guidelines Sec. 2A1.1 in sentencing defendant O'Bryant as 
   application of the cross-reference did not violate defendant's Fifth or 
   Sixth Amendment rights; Alleyne does not prevent application of the 
   cross-reference as application does not increase the penalty beyond the 
   statutory maximum or increase the mandatory minimum sentence; evidence was 
   sufficient to support the application; defendant O'Bryant's 330-month 
   sentence was not substantively unreasonable.