United States v. Fadya Husein

How courts have described this case

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

• affirming substantial variance and noting that “more worthy defendants than Husein are difficult to imagine, short of those found to be not guilty”
• affirming 99% variance from guideline range of 37 to 46 months to a one-day sentence
• hesitating to “second-guess” district court’s determination under abuse-of-discretion standard of review
• “[T]he reasons that [the district court] provide[s] for the sentence must sufficiently reflect considerations akin to those enumerated in the statute.”
• declining to supplement the record with documents of disputed significance
• applying rule to request on appeal

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).