DUBINA, Circuit Judge:
These consolidated criminal cases present an interesting sentencing issue that is one of first impression in this circuit. After reviewing the record and having the benefit of oral argument, we affirm the defendants' sentences.
I. BACKGROUND
On February 22, 1997, appellants Eric Anthony Shugart, Brent Patterson, and Jason Wesley Cantrell ("the defendants") set fire to the century-old Oak Grove Methodist Episcopal Church...
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