United States v. Bobby Myers, Jr., United States of America v. Jarmal Lamar Myers

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• holding that sentencing court may look beyond facts that constitute conviction even if factors are insufficiently relevant to increase sentence
• overturning a defendant’s sentence because the district court “did not even attempt to come within [the defendant’s] combined guideline range as prescribed in [former] U.S.S.G. § 5G1.3, but rather exceeded it by 453 months”
• defining abuse of discretion for denying a continuance due to limited time for attorney preparation as \an unrea- soning and arbitrary insistence upon expeditiousness in the face of a justifiable request for a delay'\ (quoting Morris, 461 U.S. at 11-12)
• allowing consecutive <br>sentencing under 5G1.3(c

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