of 17 felonies, each carrying a maximum penalty of five years’ imprisonment and a $250,000 fine, and one felony (money laundering) carrying a maximum penalty of 20 years’ imprisonment and a $500,000 fine. Those convictions rested on Defendant’s intentional importation, for the purpose of resale, of six illegal shipments of protected reptiles, containing 125 animals, many of which died in transit. In the second trial, the jury found Defendant guilty of a subset of six of the original felony counts, which carried maximum penalties of five years each. Defendant’s offenses are “serious” within the context of the Speedy Trial Act and the standards established by courts that have addressed this issue. See United States v. Kramer, 827 F.2d 1174, 1176-77 (8th Cir.1987) (citation omitted) (<HOLDING>); United States v. Salgado-Hernandez, 790 F.2d
holding that crimes of bank fraud punishable by up to five years imprisonment each were a serious offense for speedy trial act purposes holding that a potential prison sentence of up to five years was clearly serious holding that sentences of five years in prison followed by ten years probation were illegal sentences that exceeded the statutory maximum of five years for a thirddegree felony holding that defendants conviction for possession of marijuana with intent to distribute which was classified as a misdemeanor under south carolina law was properly deemed a felony for career offender purposes because offense was punishable by up to five years imprisonment holding that a defendant who received a suspended sentence of 157 days in jail was convicted of an offense punishable by more than oneyear of incarceration because california law provided for a sentence of up to three years imprisonment