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182237P.pdf 01/10/2020 United States v. Craig Watters
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 18-2237
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa - Cedar Rapids
[PUBLISHED] [Melloy, Author, with Shepherd and Grasz, Circuit Judges]
Criminal Case - Sentence. While serving lifetime term of supervised
release for receiving child pornography, the district court found Watters
had received, possesses and distributed child pornography; he was
sentenced to mandatory 60-month revocation sentence under section 3583(k).
He was also charged with new offenses; he pleaded guilty and was sentenced
to 262 months imprisonment to run consecutive to this revocation sentence.
On appeal, Watters argues his sentence violated Double Jeopardy and his
sentence is unreasonable. Under plain error review, even after the Supreme
Court concluded section 3582(k) was unconstitutional in violation of the
Sixth Amendment in United States v. Haymond, 139 S. Ct. 2369 (2019) and
even if Haymond abrogated double jeopardy precedent, the error was not
plain here. The sentence was also not substantively unreasonable.