United States v. William Coleman

── United States v. William Coleman ── Case No.: 25-12788 Court: Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit Date: March 17, 2026 Category: NEW USCA11 Case: 25-12788 Document: 25-1 Date Filed: 03/17/2026 Page: 1 of 7 NOT FOR PUBLICATION In the United States Court of Appeals For the Eleventh Circuit ____________________ No. 25-12788 Non-Argument Calendar ____________________ UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff-Appellee, versus WILLIAM COLEMAN, Defendant-Appellant. ____________________ Appeal from the United States District Court for the Southern District of Alabama D.C. Docket No. 1:19-cr-00157-JB-MU-1 ____________________ Before ROSENBAUM, NEWSOM, and BRASHER, Circuit Judges. PER CURIAM: William Coleman appeals his sentence of 24 months’ impris- onment imposed upon revocation of his supervised release. He ar- USCA11 Case: 25-12788 Document: 25-1 Date Filed: 03/17/2026 Page: 2 of 7 2 Opinion of the Court 25-12788 gues that his sentence is procedurally unreasonable because the dis- trict court clearly erred when it found that he had possessed and displayed a firearm during a shoplifting offense. So he asks that we vacate the district court’s sentence and remand for resentencing. After careful review, we affirm the court’s decision because its fac- tual findings were reasonable and supported by the record. I. In 2020, an indictment charged Coleman with theft of United States property in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 641. The district court imposed a time-served sentence with a three-year supervised- release term. Then, in October 2022, the district court revoked Coleman’s supervised release for failing to abide by various condi- tions of the supervised release. Based on those violations, the dis- trict court sentenced Coleman to 8 months of imprisonment fol- lowed by 24 months of supervised release. The court re-imposed all the conditions of the supervised release, including, among other things, that Coleman could not commit new crimes or possess a firearm. In October 2023, the district court revoked Coleman’s su- pervised release a second time for attempting to elude the police. The court sentenced him to 14 months of imprisonment followed by 12 months of supervised release. In September 2024, a probation officer submitted a petition to revoke Coleman’s supervised release for a third time, alleging that he had possessed a firearm while shoplifting, among other USCA11 Case: 25-12788 Document: 25-1 Date Filed: 03/17/2026 Page: 3 of 7 25-12788 Opinion of the Court 3 things. At the revocation hearing, Coleman conceded that he shop- lifted, failed to report to his probation officer, and did not pay res- titution. So Coleman admitted all the allegations except for pos- sessing a firearm. The allegations admitted were Grade C viola- tions, while the firearm possession was a Grade B violation. At the revocation hearing, a Walmart asset-protection man- ager with 25 years’ experience in law enforcement testified about an encounter with Coleman. During the night of the incident, the employee saw Coleman leave the store with merchandise without paying. When the employee confronted Coleman outside the store about the unpaid items, Coleman to