United States v. Shane Hyde

Opinion

United States Court of Appeals For the Eighth Circuit

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No. 25-3042

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United States of America

lllllllllllllllllllllPlaintiff - Appellee

v.

Shane C. Hyde

lllllllllllllllllllllDefendant - Appellant

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Appeal from United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri - Kansas City

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Submitted: June 9, 2026 Filed: June 12, 2026

[Unpublished]

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Before SMITH, ERICKSON, and STRAS, Circuit Judges.

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PER CURIAM.

Shane Hyde appeals the sentence imposed by the district court1 after he pleaded guilty to a firearm offense. His counsel has moved for leave to withdraw, and has

1 The Honorable David Gregory Kays, United States District Judge for the Western District of Missouri.

filed a brief under Anders v. California, 386 U.S. 738 (1967), challenging the substantive reasonableness of the sentence and the sufficiency of the allocution time given to Hyde during sentencing.

Upon careful review, we conclude that the district court did not impose a substantively unreasonable sentence. See United States v. Feemster, 572 F.3d 455, 461-62 (8th Cir. 2009) (en banc) (reviewing sentence under deferential abuse-ofdiscretion standard; discussing substantive reasonableness); United States v. Mangum, 625 F.3d 466, 469-70 (8th Cir. 2010) (upward variance was reasonable where court made individualized assessment based on facts presented); United States v. Farmer, 647 F.3d 1175, 1179 (8th Cir. 2011) (simply because district court weighed relevant factors more heavily than defendant preferred does not mean it abused discretion); United States v. Anderson, 90 F.4th 1226, 1227 (8th Cir. 2024) (district court has wide latitude to weigh 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) factors and to assign some factors greater weight than others). Further, he has not presented any information about what he would have said during allocution that might have changed the outcome. See United States v. Thurmond, 914 F.3d 612, 614-15 (8th Cir. 2019) (reviewing for plain error when defendant did not object to being denied right to allocution; concluding defendant failed to show serious error affecting proceedings when he did not specify what he would have said in allocution that might have mitigated his sentence).

We have also independently reviewed the record under Penson v. Ohio, 488 U.S. 75 (1988), and we find no non-frivolous issues for appeal. Accordingly, we grant counsel leave to withdraw, and we affirm.

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