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211578P.pdf   04/04/2022  United States  v.  Malik Ross
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  21-1578
   U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri - St. Louis   
   [PUBLISHED] [Gruender, Author, with Loken and Erickson, Circuit Judges] 
   Criminal case - Sentencing. The district court adequately explained its 
   reasons to vary upward in the case by 9 years; the courtstated that it 
   considered defendant's intellectual disability before making its 
   sentencing decision, and a failure to discuss the disability issue at 
   length does not make the sentencing explanation inadequate; defendant's 
   sentence was not substantively unreasonable; the upward variance, while 
   significant, was supported by the serious nature of the conduct in the 
   case, including the uncharged killing of a seven-year-old boy. Judge 
   Erickson, concurring.