United States v. David Yazzie Jones, Jr.

How courts have described this case

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• stating that appellate review \is at its most deferential\ when the court of appeals is evaluating \the district court's conclusion that the facts of this case made it atypical\
• recognizing that, although the defendant’s support in the community was insufficiently “extraordinary” to support a departure on this basis alone, a district court did not abuse its discretion by relying on this factor as one of several grounds supporting a departure
• stating that appellate review \is at its most defer ential\ when the court of appeals is evaluating \the district court's conclusion that the facts of this case made it atypical\
• upholding the district court’s finding that the Defendant’s conduct was aberrational when he “basically had been law-abiding until age 35, when his marriage disintegrated”
• considering “the negative effect incarceration would have on both the quality and quantity of [defendant’s] rehabilitative counseling”
• disapproving use of the discouraged factor of family responsibilities, but affirming downward departure on the basis of other supporting factors

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