Second Circuit· 12/4/2008

United States v. Cavera

Citations

550 F.3d 180
2008 U.S. App. LEXIS 24714
2008 WL 5102341

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 sentence of twenty-four months’ imprisonment—six months longer than the top end of the applicable Guidelines range” was “substantively reasonable”
holding that this court will “set aside a district court’s substantive determination only in exceptional cases” (emphasis in original)
concluding that this Court should not “substitute [its] own judgment for the district court’s on the question of what is sufficient to meet the § 3553(a) considerations in any particular case”
noting that a district court commits procedural error when it “rests its sentence on a clearly erroneous finding of fact”
indicating that a District Court errs when it “makes a mistake in its Guidelines calculation”
observing that district courts are “not free to ignore the Guidelines, or to treat them merely as a body of casual advice” (internal quotation marks omitted)

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Judges: Jacobs, Cardamone, Calabresi, Cabranes, Straub, Pooler, Sack, Sotomayor, Katzmann, Parker, Raggi, Wesley, Hall, Livingston

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