Brinkmann v. Urban Realty Co.

How courts have described this case

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• reviewing district court’s sentencing procedure despite recognizing that defendant did not challenge procedural reasonableness
• finding repeated appeals to nationalism and emotion “deeply troubling” but not prejudicial
• “[T]he government has conceded the point” that “district courts are permitted to vary downward in order to avoid sentencing defendants on the basis of acquitted conduct.”
• “The jury then acquitted Khatallah on all but four of the eighteen charges against him, and it made an express finding that Khatallah’s actions did not result in death.”
• “[I]t does not matter for [a defendant’s] sufficiency of the evidence challenge if the jury was provided with 43 an erroneous path to a guilty verdict . . . as long as a properly instructed jury had enough evidence for conviction.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).