Joshua James Selph v. State of Florida

How courts have described this case

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• holding that, though a district court is not required to apply current Guidelines, “the § 3553(a) factors in [a] First Step Act sentencing may include consideration of the defendant’s advisory range under the current guidelines”
• affirming denial even though the ongoing sentence was “almost ten years higher than [the] range . . . under the current advisory guidelines”
• reviewing reasonableness of sentence reduced under First Step Act under deferential abuse-of- discretion standard
• explaining the district court was correct to begin its analysis by considering “the sentence sought to be reduced” and also to recognize that its previous variance “had eliminated excessiveness the First Step Act was intended to remedy”
• “[T]he § 3553(a) factors in First Step Act sentencing may include consideration of the defendant’s ad- visory range under the current guidelines.”
• “[T]he § 3553(a) factors in First Step Act sentencing may include consideration of the defendant’s ad- visory range under the current guidelines.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).