U.S. v. BARNES

Nos. 17-7016, 17-7017.

890 F.3d 910 (2018)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Raymond A. BARNES, Defendant-Appellee. United States of America, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Christopher A. Brown, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

FILED May 16, 2018.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

April J. Anderson , Attorney ( John M. Gore , Acting Assistant Attorney General, and Bonnie I. Robin-Vergeer , Attorney, with her on the briefs), United States Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, Appellate Section, Washington, D.C., for Appellant.

Barry L. Derryberry , Assistant Federal Public Defender ( Julia L. O'Connell , Federal Public Defender, with him on the brief), Office of the Federal Public Defender, Tulsa, Oklahoma, for Appellee Barnes.

Jimmy L. Hopkins , Tahlequah, Oklahoma, for Appellee Brown.

Before TYMKOVICH, Chief Judge, MATHESON, and BACHARACH, Circuit Judges.


This is the second appeal arising from crimes committed by two corrections officers, Raymond Barnes and Christopher Brown, while employed at the Muskogee County Jail. The government argues the sentences the district court imposed after we remanded for resentencing are substantively unreasonable. Because we find the district...

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