Supreme Court· 3/2/2011

Pepper v. United States

Citations

179 L. Ed. 2d 196
2011 U.S. LEXIS 1902
131 S. Ct. 1229
562 U.S. 476
79 U.S.L.W. 4144
22 Fla. L. Weekly Fed. S 844

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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

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Judges: Alito, Breyer, Consideration, Ginsburg, III, Kagan, Kennedy, Roberts, Scalia, Sotomayor, Thomas, Took

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