United States v. Earl Dejon Leonard

How courts have described this case

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• noting that the “specific reason” requirement for an above-Guidelines sentence applies to revocation of supervised release (citation omitted)
• explaining that the defendant “violat[ed] every aspect of what is intended to be accomplished by supervised release” and had “not complied in any sense of the word with the obligations of supervised release”
• affirming a sentence that fell above the Guidelines range when the defendant’s previous term of supervised release had been revoked because he failed to refrain from illegal drug use and stay employed
• “In revoking supervised release, the district court is not required to give the parties notice that it is contemplating a sentence outside the Guidelines range ....”
• “Because Chapter 7 is advisory, a judge issuing a sentence outside the Chapter 7 range is not ‘departing’ from a binding guideline, and, therefore, we also held that notice of an intent to ‘depart’ is unnecessary”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).