Sentences with phrase «below guideline sentence»

As detailed in the district court's sentencing opinion (available below), the facts in Gall are quite compelling in support of a below guideline sentence.

Every below guideline sentence the government appeals will be reversed as an abuse of discretion.

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Shirley Huntley was sentenced to a year and a day behind bars for stealing from a nonprofit she ran, which was below the guideline sentence of 18 to 24 months.

But the record demonstrates that the District Court's decision to impose a below Guidelines sentence was not a failure or refusal to recognize the Guidelines, but rather a carefully considered reliance on the Section 3553 (a) factors.

Actually, DOJ is only recommending a within - guideline sentence for Samuel Mullet Sr. (and it is recommending well - below guideline sentences for all the other Amish defendants).

Not exact matches

Clearly he got what prisoners might call «a touch» because that sentence is very lenient and well below the usual guideline used by judges in cases involving illegal firearms.

Silver's lawyers maintain in their sentencing memo that Manhattan Federal Judge Valerie Caproni should consider «a term of rigorous community service — whether as an alternative to incarceration, or as a component of an appropriate below - guidelines sentence» due to his age and poor health.

Sentences that went below the guidelines increased from 18 percent to 23 percent from 2001 to 2013.

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The Goldberg decision, which was authored by Judge Posner, reverses a below - guideline sentence of just one day of imprisonment for a seemingly troubled young man convicted of downloading and sharing child porn.

In a decision important to high - dollar white - collar prosecutions, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals bolstered the broad discretion of trial judges to issue sentences far below, or far above, sentencing guidelines.

I can offer only anecdotal evidence in response to your suggestion that the idea that many district court judges feel that the Guidelines are too harsh is «silly,» but the district court judge for whom I clerk definitely feels that way and has imposed many below - Guidelines sentences since Booker (relatively few of which have been appealed by the government).

After carefully considering those factors, the District Court sentenced Adelson principally to 42 months» imprisonment, a sentence substantially below the applicable Guidelines range of life in prison, and also imposed an order of restitution of $ 50 million, payable to the company's shareholders, and directed Adelson to forfeit $ 1.2 million in criminal proceeds.

Any point total over 44 points means that a state prison sentence must be imposed unless the prosecutors agree or the judge chooses to depart below the mandatory prison term as called for by legal guidelines.

And both cases give defense attorneys new ammunition for arguing for below - guideline sentences (in fact, Berman even suggested that lawyers for Michael Vick and Conrad Black postpone sentencing in their clients» respective cases, though his advice came too late for Vick, who's already gotten 23 months and Black, who received 6.5 years).

And crack defendants sentenced within the old guidelines won't find relief unless they preserved the argument that the crack / cocaine disparity justifies a below - sentence guideline.

In Gall, the court held, in a 7 - 2 decision (Alito and Thomas dissenting) that appellate courts must use a deferential standard to review a lower court's sentence that falls below the range in the sentencing guidelines.

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(In addition to the Seventh Circuit's notable reversal of a below - guideline sentence in Goldberg (discussed here), on Friday the Eighth Circuit upheld a below - guideline sentence in US v. Jimenez - Guiterrez (available here) and the Tenth Circuit discussed the obligation to state reasons in US v. Romero (available here) without any mention of Rita.)

Does this mean that in some states people should get a below - guidelines sentence because isn't that bad?

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This suggests that a District Judge of a mind to give a sentence above or below the Guidelines will get the leeway to do so.

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The decision in Menyweather suggests that, in the Ninth Circuit, defendants should expect fair weather (and prosecutors should expect stormy weather) on appeals from sentences below the guidelines.

All Congress will need is a couple of cases where sentences are below the Guidelines range before it will decry the «softhearded» judges and make some more ill - advised and exceedingly harsh criminal penalities.

I am eagerly awaiting tomorrow's SCOTUS sentencing arguments in Gall and Kimbrough to see how the Justices discuss the status of below - guideline after Booker.

Well... I think Thomas's closing was just a little sloppy — he should have said that the the judge made two errors: using judicial fact finding to boost the sentence and then going below a mandatory guideline regime.

Though this data could be interpreted in many ways, it does not seem unreasonable to speculate that in many of these cases sentencing judges freed from guideline constraints would be eager to go below (perhaps well below) the sentences now mandated by the guidelines.

Oct. 1, 2007)(available here), the First Circuit seems no reason to await further guidance on reasonableness review before reversing a below - guideline sentence in a white - collar case.

As detailed in this webpage (which has links to the briefs in Claiborne here and Rita here), as part of the amicus effort, «NYCDL compiled and analyzed a database of 1,515 post-Booker reasonableness review cases,» which documented «that the courts of appeals have affirmed nearly all within - and above - guidelines sentences while reversing nearly all below - guidelines sentences appealed by the government.»

Defended an internal medicine specialist in an Ohio Medical Board proceeding, securing a below - guidelines sentence that resulted in avoiding suspension of the client's medical license.

A special case - specific moment: The Supreme Court has pending before it a crack - sentencing case, Claiborne v. US, although the district court in that case imposed a below - guideline sentence (which the Eighth Circuit reversed as too short).

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Secured below - guidelines sentence for an accountant alleged to have participated in an $ 80 million tax fraud associated with a string of theme - based restaurants.

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Proceedings below: Mario Claiborne received a below - guideline sentence of 15 months in prison in the district court, but the Eighth Circuit reversed this sentence as unreasonably low on the government's appeal; Victor Rita received a within - guideline sentence of 33 months in prison in the district court, and the Fourth Circuit affirmed this sentence as reasonable.

In FY 2017, 20.1 percent of the sentences imposed were departures or variances below the guideline range other than at the government's request, compared to 20.8 percent in fiscal year 2016.

Overall, 79.8 percent of all sentences imposed in FY 2017 were either within the applicable guidelines range, above the range, or below the range at the request of the government.

May 12, 2006)(available here), has reversed another below - guideline sentence as unreasonable.

post-Booker below - guideline sentence reversed by the Eighth Circuit:

If there are any aggravating — or mitigating — circumstances which might not have been taken into consideration by the Federal Sentencing Guidelines, a federal judge is allowed to impose a sentence which is above or below the guideline range.

Legg declined to impose a sentence below the recommended sentencing guidelines.

These defendants argue that sentencing courts in non-fast-track districts have the discretion to grant below - Guidelines sentences to mitigate the disparity.

One (unnamed) commentor assails me for a a lack of «objectivity» because I critique this affirmance of an above - guideline sentence but often praise affirmances of below - guidelines sentences.

The First and Third Circuits now hold that «sentencing courts can consider items such as fast - track disparity» when deciding whether to grant a below - Guidelines sentence.

Of course, the Eighth Circuit, which reversed the below - guideline probation sentence given to Brian Michael Gall, saw matters differently.

Skilling's 24.3 - year sentence reflects a profound and unwarranted disparity compared to the (1) uniformly below - Guidelines sentences imposed on eight even more culpable high - ranking executives from major corporations; and (2) the 5.5 year sentence imposed on co-defendant Richard Causey.

Writing in the Fulton County Daily Report, Alyson Palmer has this long article headlined «11th Circuit Wrestles With Sentencing: Panels split in upholding sentences in child pornography and bribery cases that fell below sentencing guidelinSentencing: Panels split in upholding sentences in child pornography and bribery cases that fell below sentencing guidelinsentencing guidelines.»

Early Disposition Programs — commonly referred to as «fast - track» sentencing - allow a federal prosecutor to offer a below - Guidelines sentence in exchange for a defendant's prompt guilty plea and waiver of certain pre-trial and post-conviction rights.