United States v. E. Hernandez, United States of America v. Sylvester Britt

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• \nothing on the face of section 994(h) reveals 'categories' to be a term either of critical significance or of opaque ambiguity.\
• \[W]e are unpersuaded that prosecutorial discretion in the application of enhanced statutory penalties is sufficient to create an ambiguity as to what Congress may have intended 'categories' to signify.\
• \[W]e believe that the specific and unequivocal command that career offenders be sentenced 'at or near the maximum term authorized' trumps the more general concern for consistency in overall sentences.\

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