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161266P.pdf 02/24/2017 United States v. Dontre D'Sean McHenry
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 16-1266
U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota - St. Paul
[PUBLISHED] [Loken, Author, with Smith and Colloton, Circuit Judges]
Criminal case - Criminal law and sentencing. Officers investigating sex
trafficking of a minor had a good faith belief that exigent circumstances
justified a request to the phone carrier to disclose subscriber
information and to conduct GPS tracking of the number, as authorized by
the Storage Communications Act; defendant's claim that counsel had failed
to prepare him for the change-of-plea hearing was belied by the transcript
and the district court did not err in rejecting defendant's claim that
this justified withdrawal of his guilty plea; no error in imposing an
enhancement for obstruction of justice under Guidelines Sec. 3C1.1 where
defendant attempted to contact the victim in order to manipulate and
influence her testimony; no error in denying an
acceptance-of-responsibility reduction under Guidelines Sec. 3E1.1(a) as
defendant's attempt to withdraw his plea showed he did not accept
responsibility; sentence was not substantively unreasonable.