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· 6/11/2008

United States v. Boardman

Citations

  • 528 F.3d 86
  • 2008 U.S. App. LEXIS 12420
  • 2008 WL 2357940

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that Kimbrough granted district courts “broader freedom” to determine whether prior convictions qualify as predicate “crimes of violence” for purposes of the career offender Guideline
  • remanding career-offender case for resen-tencing so that the district court could \consider such issues with the additional latitude furnished by Kimbrough.\
  • vacating where a district court followed a guideline, as interpreted by this court, though it disagreed with it, since the district court did not, before Kimbrough, believe it had the power to disagree
  • discussing the district judge’s comments ,. at sentencing
  • discussing the district judge's comments at sentencing

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Boudin, Lynch, Lipez

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