First Midwest Bank v. Ottawa Regional Hospital and Healthcare Center

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• holding that a sentence within the advisory range is entitled to a “presumption of reasonableness”
• holding that where, as here, the defendant did not seek a departure under U.S.S.G. § 4A1.3 before the district court, failure to depart is reviewed for plain error
• rejecting defendant’s claim that the court applied the Guidelines as mandatory when it stated it was “required to impose those guidelines” because the court explained elsewhere in the record it was aware of its discretion to vary from the Guidelines
• “It would have been an error for the district court to consider potential federal/state sentencing disparities”
• “It would have been aq error for the district court to consider potential federal/state sentencing disparities”
• Thus, the prosecutor recommended a guideline sentence, and nothing else.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).