Ford v. Chahfe

How courts have described this case

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• holding that weight to afford aggravating and mitigating factors is matter firmly committed to sentencing judge’s discretion, with appellate court seeking to ensure only that those factors can bear weight assigned under totality of circumstances
• explaining that “our standard is reasonableness, a particularly deferential form of abuse-of-discretion review” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• explaining that purpose of appellate review is to ensure only that such factors bear weight assigned under totality of circumstances
• recognizing “particular weight to be afforded aggravating and mitigating factors is a matter firmly committed to the discretion of the sentencing judge” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• explaining that the “particular weight to be afforded aggravating and mitigating factors ‘is a matter firmly committed to the discretion of the sentencing judge’” (citation omitted)
• observing that “district court was hardly required to view the possession crime as ‘free,’ particularly as it reached well beyond” the attempted production at issue to “involv[e] many more victims”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).