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151738P.pdf 08/12/2016 United States v. Gordon Lasley, Jr.
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 15-1738
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa - Cedar Rapids
[PUBLISHED] [Loken, Author, with Wollman and Bright, Circuit Judges]
Criminal case - Criminal law and sentencing. The district court did not
abuse its discretion by refusing to give defendant's requested instruction
on the crime of involuntary manslaughter as a rational jury could not,
based on the evidence in the case, acquit defendant of first- and
second-degree murder and convict him of involuntary manslaughter;
defendant's within-guidelines sentence of consecutive life sentences,
while admittedly harsh, was not substantively unreasonable. Judge Bright
dissenting.