Magee v. Texas Construction Co.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that, during a resentencing, a court “may consider evidence of defendant’s rehabilitation since his prior sentencing”
• holding that district courts “may consider evidence of a defendant’s postsentencing rehabilitation at resentencing and such evidence may, in appropriate cases, support a downward variance from the advisory Guidelines range”
• noting that “a district court may in appropriate cases impose a non-Guidelines sentence based on 12 a disagreement with the [Sentencing] Commission’s views”
• noting that a re-sentenced defendant’s rehabilitation “may, in appropriate cases, support a downward variance” (emphasis added)
• stating the sentencing court is allowed “to consider the widest possible breadth of information” in imposing sentence

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).