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212146P.pdf 05/27/2022 United States v. Jacob Walls
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 21-2146
U.S. District Court for the Western District of Arkansas - Harrison
[PUBLISHED] [Smith, Author, with Wollman and Erickson, Circuit Judges]
Criminal case - Sentencing. The fire defendant set created a substantial
risk of harm to firefighters and the district court did not err in setting
defendant's offense level at 24 pursuant to Guidelines Sec. 2K1.4(a)(1);
the fire was set to conceal another offense - illegal timber harvesting -
and the district court did not err in imposing an enhancement under
Guidelines Sec. 2K1.4(b)(1); defendant's sentence, the statutory maximum,
was not substantively unreasonable.