United States v. Brantley

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a lengthy criminal history justified the imposition of an upward departure or variance
• ruling that any error in imposing a fine instead of restitution didn’t affect the defendant’s substantial rights, because the fine was about the same as the restitution the court could have awarded
• indicating that in imposing a non-Guidelines sentence, the district court may rely on factors already taken into account by the guidelines
• stating that a district court may rely on factors already taken into account by the Guidelines, including a defendant’s criminal history
• recognizing “district court may rely upon factors already incorporated by the Guidelines to support a non- Guidelines sentence”
• holding sentence reasonable under sentencing factors in the light of, inter alia, defendant’s extensive criminal history

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).