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122542P.pdf 07/09/2013 United States v. Iralee French, Jr.
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 12-2542
U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri - Kansas City
[PUBLISHED] [Riley, Author, with Loken and Shepherd, Circuit Judges]
Criminal case - Criminal law and sentencing. The Constitution does not
mandate electronic recording of a defendant's custodial interrogation, and
admission of his statement does not violate his Fifth Amendment rights;
district court duly considered the evidence, defendant's arguments and the
3553(a) factors in imposing and explaining defendant's sentence; district
court did not err in finding defendant was a threat to society; no error
in applying the first-degree murder cross-reference in the sentencing
Guideline for robbery where the court found a bank guard died of
complications related to the gun shot wound defendant inflicted during the
bank robbery; the imposition of consecutive sentences was not
substantively unreasonable under the tragic and calloused circumstances of
defendant's crimes.