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042563P.pdf 09/13/2005 USA v. Jack Wayne Rogers
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 04-2563
Western District of Missouri
[PUBLISHED] [Loken, Author, with Fagg and Bye, Circuit Judges]
Criminal case - Sentencing Guidelines. Guilty plea waived defendant's
Sixth Amendment rights under Booker; applying Pirani's plain error
analysis, defendant was not entitled to Booker relief as nothing in the
record demonstrated a reasonable probability that the district court would
have imposed a lesser sentence under an advisory guidelines scheme;
district court's statements in open court and its written judgment
adequately set out the ground for imposition of a sentence outside the
guidelines sentencing range; district court did not misapply the guidelines
in imposing an extreme upward departure based on defendant's heinous
conduct and the physical injury he inflicted on the adult victims of his
gender nullification procedures; the conduct of performing dangerous
genital removals in a motel room was sufficiently related to defendant's
child pornography conviction to serve as the basis for the upward
departure; extent of departure was not unreasonable given defendant's
brutal, cruel and degrading conduct and his publication of the gruesome
acts on the Internet; case remanded for a modification of the judgment
consistent with Guidelines Part 5G (2002).