United States v. Issam Awad

How courts have described this case

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• holding the district court abused its discretion by imposing a sentence based on the govern- ment’s incomplete evaluation of the defendant’s admittedly substantial pre-sentence assistance and allowing the govern- ment to revisit the issue at a later date
• district courts are to give substan- tial weight to the Government’s evaluation of that assistance
• district courts are to give substantial weight to the Government’s evaluation of that assistance
• district courts are to give substantial weight to the Government's evaluation of that assistance
• “The defendant bears the burden of proving that he is entitled to a downward adjustment based on his role in the offense.”
• district courts are to give substantial weight to the Government’s evaluation of that assistance

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