State v. Cleverley

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• affirming an above-guidelines sentence where the court “situated [the defendant’s] offense against . . . observations about widespread gun violence in Chicago”
• citing, inter alia, Spears v. United States, 555 U.S. 261, 265–66 (2009); United States v. Corner, 598 F.3d 411, 415 (7th Cir. 2010) (en banc)
• affirming sentence and concluding district court did not commit procedural error by “merely situat[ing] [defendant’s] offense against the back‐ drop of statistics and observations about widespread gun vi‐ olence in Chicago”
• affirming above-guidelines sentence for firearm trafficking where judge commented on the “gun violence that plagues this city” and “[c]hildren [being] shot while playing in front of their own homes”

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