United States of America, Appellee-Cross-Appellant v. Leonard Joyner, Defendant-Appellant-Cross-Appellee, Jose Valentin

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• describing how Congress and the Sentencing Commission purposefully structured the guidelines in a way that prescribed different ranges for different conduct, producing different punishments
• “The Congressional objective was to eliminate unwarranted disparities nationwide. An applicable guideline range may seem harsh (or lenient
• “the degree of my de parture is influenced by ... the need to avoid unwarranted sentence disparity among defendants with similar records who have been found guilty of a similar conduct”
• Congress’ objective was to eliminate disparity in federal sentencing nationwide
• remand coupled with statement that departure was questionable
• section 1B1.3 commentary reflects Pinkerton standard

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).