United States v. Benjamin Stanley, Rufus Paul Harris

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a defendant’s Fifth Amendment right is not violated at sentencing when a court considers his “freely offered statements indicating a lack of remorse.”
• holding that representation by counsel until the first day of trial “likely exposed [the defndant] to the complexity of his case and the legal process”
• explaining that a sentence within the guideline range and below the statutory maximum suggests reasonableness
• explaining that a sentence within the guideline range and below the statutory maximum suggests reasonableness
• explaining that sentences that fall within a properly calculated guidelines range are “ordinarily . . . expect[ed] . . . to be [] reasonable”
• emphasizing that a district court may take the second step, but is not required to do so

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).