United States v. Felix Sindima

How courts have described this case

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

• observing that “at revocation the court should sanction primarily the defendant’s breach of trust”
• noting that “Mr. Gordon was not deterred by his previous avoidance of imprisonment” and that his “illegal possession of a gun” was a “violation of perhaps the most important condition of his previous felony probation”
• distinguishing Gordon from defendants sentenced at national sentencing averages by asking “how many of those folks were on probation for a gun conviction?”
• “[J]ust so the record is clear, Mr. Gordon benefited from leniency in his prior sentence.”
• “Mr. Gordon [must] be sentenced for his conduct, his circumstances, and it[’]s significant in this case to note that he was on probation for a similar offense.”
• “Our ability to uphold a sentence as reasonable will be informed by the district court’s statement of reasons (or lack thereof) for the sentence that it elects to impose.” (alterations and internal quotation marks omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).