United States v. Gerald Ture

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• noting that a sentence is unreasonable if it gives significant weight to an improper or irrelevant factor
• stating that a sentence of probation but no imprisonment \amounts to a 100% variance from the Guidelines range\
• finding that a sentence of probation for tax evasion despite a Guidelines sentencing range of twelve to eighteen months in prison was unreasonable
• stating that the defendant’s lack of criminal history, his expression of remorse for his crime, and his cooperation with prosecutors were “not so extraordinary as to warrant a no-prison sentence” for the defendant’s conviction of tax evasion
• reversing the district court's sentence of probation when the Guidelines called for at least twelve months of incarceration
• vacating and remanding sentence as substantively unreasonable where the 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a

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