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163708P.pdf 08/18/2017 United States v. Daniel Lovato
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 16-3708
U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota - Aberdeen
[PUBLISHED] [Colloton, Author, with Smith, Chief Judge, and Kelly, Circuit
Judge]
Criminal case - Sentencing. The imposition of both an increase in
defendant's offense level under Guidelines Sec. 4B1.5(b) for a pattern of
activity involving prohibited sexual conduct and an upward departure under
Guidelines Sec. 5K2.21 was not impermissible double counting because the
increase in offense level under Sec. 4B1.5 did not fully account for the
defendant's eight-year pattern of sexually abusing the minor victim; given
the aggravating circumstances and the extraordinary sexual abuse,
imposition of the statutory maximum sentence did not create a sentencing
disparity, and the sentence was not substantively unreasonable.