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· 12/9/2011

United States v. Clogston

Citations

  • 662 F.3d 588
  • 2011 U.S. App. LEXIS 24440
  • 2011 WL 6118533

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that weighing pertinent factors to determine sentence \is largely within the court's informed discretion\
  • observing that \the discretion to vary under Kimbrough is not tantamount to an obligation to do so\
  • noting that the \weighting\ of the \relevant [sentencing] factors\ is \largely within the court's informed discretion\
  • noting that an appellate court \must assay the record as a whole to gauge the sentencing judge's thought process\
  • explaining that “the weighting of [sentencing] factors is largely within the court’s informed discretion”
  • explaining that \the weighting of [sentencing] factors is largely within the court's informed discretion\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Boudin, Selya, Howard

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