Florida Man’s Post-Murder 20-Year Fraud Sentence Survives Appeal

A Florida man who was convicted of second degree murder while on probation for federal wire charges was properly sentenced to 20 years in prison, the Eleventh Circuit said.

Henry Steiger pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and three counts of wire fraud in 2017 and received three year’s probation. That probationary sentence was revoked in February 2022, however, after Steiger was found guilty in Florida state court of the 2018 murder of Cassandra Robinson, the mother of his then one-year-old child.

After revoking his probation, the US district court imposed the maximum sentence of ...