United States v. Archery Lynn Overstreet

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a district court may consider criminal activity of a defendant that was not relevant conduct as part of the history of the defendant
• holding that the district court was “entitled to consider the murder in deciding whether to vary outside the guideline range”
• holding that a district court may review Shepard documents “to determine ‘the factual nature’ of prior convictions for ACCA purposes, ‘including whether they were committed on different occasions’”
• stating that a district court is permitted to attach “great weight” to one § 3553(a) factor over others
• explaining that “a district court can rely on factors in imposing a variance that it had already considered in imposing [a guideline] enhancement” (alteration in original)
• upholding, as substantively reasonable, an above- the-guidelines sentence of 420 months for defendant convicted of being a felon in possession of a firearm

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).