Batchelor v. Stevenson

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a “mistake in calculating the recommended Guidelines sentencing range is a significant procedural error that requires us to remand for resentencing”
• holding that a district court’s statement that it would have imposed the same sentence no matter the correct calculation “cannot, without more, insulate the sentence from remand”
• holding that an error in calculating the correct Guidelines range is harmless under various circumstances indicating that the court would have imposed the same term regardless of the error
• holding that an error in calculating the Guidelines range was not harmless because “had the district court started with the correct Guidelines range of 24 to 30 months, rather than 33 to 41 months, it may have arrived at a different sentence”
• explaining that, if the sentence would be the same, the error is harmless and remand is unnecessary
• declining to find harmless a district court’s incorrect application of an enhancement because it was unclear whether the district court would impose the same sentence if the correct guidelines range were “kept in mind throughout the process” (citation omitted)

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