Samuel Hogsett v. Thomas Lillard

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• holding that an imposed sentence affects a defendant's substantial rights when it significantly exceeds the high- and low-ends of applicable Guidelines range
• holding that an imposed sentence affects a defendant’s substantial rights when it significantly exceeds the high- and low-ends of applicable Guidelines range
• concluding that an error that would have reduced the advisory Guidelines range from 97-121 months to 70-87 months affected the defendant’s substantial rights
• holding that the district court’s misapplication of the Guidelines affected the defendant’s substantial rights where the “correct and incorrect sentencing ranges overlap[ped] by one month, [and the defendant] was sentenced well outside the one month overlap, 19 months above the correct range”
• explaining that in the absence of a proffer, an appellant cannot prevail on a direct challenge to the district court’s hearsay ruling
• observing that \[t]he discretion inherent in the plain-error standard\ should not turn on \sympathy or lack thereof for a particular individual or the public's or a judge's opinion as to the seriousness or heinous nature of a particular crime\

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