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First Circuit· 5/26/2017

United States v. Fields

Citations

  • 858 F.3d 24
  • 2017 WL 2298071
  • 2017 U.S. App. LEXIS 9275

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  • “.Our review ‘is characterized by a frank recognition of the substantial discretion vested in a sentencing court.’ ” (quoting United States v. Flores-Machicote, 706 F.3d 16, 20 (1st Cir. 2013))
  • district court’s “on-the-spot judgment is entitled to considerable weight” and “[t]hough a different finding may have been supportable in view of the appellant’s history of drug abuse, the district court was not required to interpret the record in the manner that the appellant urged”

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Judges: Lynch, Selya, Kayatta

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