Manson v. Board of Levee Com'rs

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• granting certiorari on the following question: “May a district court give a defendant a longer prison sentence to promote rehabilitation, as the Eighth and Ninth Circuits have held, or is such a factor prohibited, as the Second, Third, Eleventh, and D.C. Circuits have held?”
• \[T]he plain language of the statute prohibits considering a defendant's rehabilitative needs as a factor in setting the duration of her prison sentence.\

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