United States v. Bendtzen

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “Because a Guidelines sentence will usually be reasonable, [defendant’s] below-Guidelines sentence, supported by the district court’s specific reasoning, is reasonable.”
• “Because a Guidelines sentence will usually be reasonable, [Kahre’s] below- Guidelines sentence, supported by the district court’s specific reasoning, is reasonable.”
• “legislative enactments should not be construed to ren- der their provisions mere surplusage” (citation and internal quotation omitted)
• internal 1 The government’s motion at Docket 23 for judicial notice of Idaho state court documents is denied. 3 quotation marks and citation omitted
• “Because a Guidelines sentence will usually be reasonable, [appellant]’s below-Guidelines sentence, supported by the district court’s specific reasoning, is reasonable.” (internal quotation marks and citations omitted)
• “Because ‘a Guidelines sentence will usually be reasonable,’ . . . [the defendant’s] below-Guidelines sentence, supported by the district court’s specific reasoning, is reasonable.” (quoting Carty, 520 F.3d at 994)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).