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· 4/11/2006

United States v. Gordon J. Givens

Citations

  • 443 F.3d 642
  • 2006 U.S. App. LEXIS 8796
  • 2006 WL 925285

How courts have described this case

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

  • rejecting the district court's sentence of \time served\ when defendant had served no time and a Guidelines range of twenty-four to thirty months applied
  • vacating and remanding sentence as substantively unreasonable where the district court gave “too much weight” to “defendant’s history and characteristics and showed a great deal of sympathy toward him” and gave “not enough [weight] to the other portions of section 3553(a)”

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Judges: Beam, Riley, Wollman

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