Kareem v. United States

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• encouraging district courts to ask this question when confronting “arcane and arbitrary” issues under the Guidelines
• remanding based on arcane guideline er- ror where district judge did not make clear that sentence did not depend on that guideline issue
• encouraging sentencing judges confronting difficult but technical questions under Guidelines to ask why judge or anyone else should care about the answers, and to exercise discretion under § 3553(a)
• encouraging sentencing judges confronting difficult but technical questions under Guidelines to ask why judge or 1 Our colleagues in other circuits disagree on this issue. Compare United States v. Stoker, 706 F.3d 643, 649 (5th. Cir. 2013
• “when an arcane and arbitrary issue arises under the Sentencing Guidelines, the sentencing judge should ask, ‘Why should I care?’”
• “when an arcane and arbitrary issue arises under the Sentencing Guidelines, the sentencing judge should ask, ‘Why should I care?’”

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