Lonnie Billard v. Charlotte Catholic High School

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• explaining that national sentencing data released by the Commission should serve as “a starting point for district judges in their efforts to avoid unwarranted sentence disparities”
• determining that a sentence was “an outlier when compared to other sentences . . . even when that comparison is limited to other criminal-history-category-VI offenders” because it “was nearly twice the top of the (erroneously-high
• determining that a sentence was “an outlier when compared to other sentences . . . even when that comparison is limited to other criminal-history-category-VI offenders” because it “was nearly twice the top of the (erroneously-high
• “Admittedly, there was (and remains) some doubt about the extent to which Guidelines §2A3.5(a) directs district courts to look beyond the mere fact of a prior sex-offense conviction and into the specific factual circumstances of that offense.”

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