Sentences with phrase «lower guideline ranges»

«While a handful of district courts, following Booker, have taken it upon themselves to lower guideline ranges for crack offenses based on a perceived unfairness in comparison with sentencing for powder cocaine crimes, this is plainly beyond judicial authority, and the appellate courts to address the matter have unanimously rejected this result.

Not exact matches

In the U.S., we removed full - calorie sodas during the school day and replaced them with a range of low - and no - calorie, smaller - portion choices as part of our industry's voluntary School Beverage Guidelines.

New York City's Rent Guidelines Board voted last night to recommend an unusually low range of possible rent increases for the coming year, even raising the possibility of a rent freeze for one - year leases.

«Previous research, and many dietary guidelines in North America and Europe recommended daily intake of these foods ranging from 400 to 800 grams per day, but this is unaffordable for many people in low to middle - income countries,» he explained.

It is because of the known benefits of good diet that Doctors are encouraged to follow best practice guidelines which state that patients with high cholesterol must first be advised to modify their diet and lifestyle in an effort to lower cholesterol to the desired range.

Important, the NAS did not consider these ranges to be Dietary Reference Intake guidelines that established specific upper (or lower) limits for protein intake.

I have found a GP who will read between the lines and will order more tests if you are hovering at the lower or higher end of the range that is given to them as a guideline.

Several Committee members suggested that the Dietary Guidelines could simply present an acceptable range, without describing it as a low, high, or moderate amount of fat.

The Sentencing Council has published proposed guidelines on public order offences, ranging from riots and large - scale violence by football fans down to low - level disorderly behaviour.

And the guy's guidelines range was lower than the defendant from United States v. Grinbergs, 470 F. 3d 758 (8th Cir.

The court suggested that based on this income baseline and on the Spousal Support Guidelines, spousal support should be in the mid to lower range of support.

The Spousal Support Advisory Guidelines establishes a low - mid-high range of appropriate spousal support but they are not law.

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.

(And, as detailed here and this archive, the USSC has this year put its long - held expert opinion into action by amending the guidelines, effective November 1, to lower all crack guideline ranges across the board.)

Tate entered into a federal drug felony guilty plea, whereby the prosecution agreed to recommend the low end of the «applicable [voluntary federal sentencing] guideline range».

As a result, Tate disagreed that the judge had determined a sentencing guidelines range that was higher than called for by the sentencing guidelines, but the prosecutor simply asked for a sentence at the low end of the guidelines range determined by the trial judge.

Though this USSC's new crack work need not directly impact the Supreme Court's assessment of broader Booker issues, the fact that Mario Claiborne's guideline range would be lower under the new crack guidelines could surely impact some Justices» perspectives.

In its consideration of the § 3553 (a) factors, the district court correctly found in the exercise of its discretion that other facts warranted a sentence lower than that recommended by the Guidelines range.

There are two factors that militate in favour of an amount lower than the suggested range in the Guidelines.

CFTKAW lawyers say the NAIC report proposed that these actions should range from activities common to most states, such as the creation of rate comparison guides or the implementation of restrictions on underwriting guidelines, to initiatives unique to a small number of states such as comprehensive programs to provide low - cost liability policies to low - income drivers.

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