United States v. Daniel Major

Type

Opinion

Author

Karen Nelson Moore

Filed

June 25, 2025

Case

United States v. Daniel Major

Case status

Decided

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NOT RECOMMENDED FOR PUBLICATION File Name: 25a0314n.06 No. 24-5605 UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT FILED Jun 25, 2025 KELLY L. STEPHENS, Clerk ) UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, ) Plaintiff-Appellee, ) ON APPEAL FROM THE ) UNITED STATES DISTRICT v. ) COURT FOR THE WESTERN ) DISTRICT OF KENTUCKY DANIEL LAMOR MAJOR, ) Defendant-Appellant. ) OPINION ) ) Before: MOORE, GRIFFIN, and KETHLEDGE, Circuit Judges. KAREN NELSON MOORE, Circuit Judge. Daniel Major was near the end of a five- year term of supervised release when a warrant for his arrest was issued following his indictment on new federal drug-conspiracy charges. A district court sentenced Major to 140 months of imprisonment on the new charges and 33 months of imprisonment for Major’s violation of his previous term of supervised release. The district court elected to run the 33-month sentence consecutively to the 140-month sentence. On appeal, Major challenges the reasonableness of that decision. But because we find no error in the district court’s sentencing decisions, we AFFIRM. I. FACTUAL BACKGROUND A. Major’s Supervised Release Violation In 2010, Daniel Lamor Major pleaded guilty to possessing cocaine base with t…

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