United States v. Arthur Payton

How courts have described this case

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• holding that an above-Guidelines sentence of 45-years imprisonment was substantively unreasonable
• explaining that “elderly offenders pose so low a risk to the public that long or otherwise harsh sentences have little to no utilitarian benefit.” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• vacating forty-five year sentence where district court failed to address argument that defendant’s age decreased his risk of re-engaging in violent crime
• “These statistics suggest that past fifty years old there is a significantly lower rate of recidivism.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).