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212346P.pdf 07/28/2022 United States v. James Miller, Jr.
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 21-2346
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas - Central
[PUBLISHED] [Kobes, Author, with Grasz and Stras, Circuit Judges]
Criminal case - Sentencing. The district court provided an adequate
explanation for defendant Miller's sentence, an upward variance, and it
did not commit plain error by failing to explain the sentence; Miller's
sentence was substantively reasonable, and it is affirmed; here, where
defendant Few was a member of a conspiracy that stole cash machines in
Arkansas and Oklahoma, it was not clearly erroneous to include the
Oklahoma burglaries in the calculation of the amount of loss; the evidence
was sufficient to support the district court's decision to hold him
responsible for the conspiracy's crimes, even if he was not physically
present when they were committed; the district court did not err in
ordering restitution for the Oklahoma losses; the district court did not
plainly err in calculating the loss amount based on the replacement value
of the ATMs damaged in the burglaries, rather than their fair market
value.