United States v. James Beier

How courts have described this case

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• upholding district court’s refusal to impose lower sentence when defendant who was molested and had low IQ failed to explain why these personal characteristics warranted leniency
• “The statute does not attach weights to these factors, thus leaving the séntencing judge with enormous latitude.... ”
• “The statute does not attach weights to these factors, thus leaving the sentencing judge with enormous latitude … .”
• “cluster of personal experiences and characteristics,” including depression, below‐average IQ, and sexual abuse in childhood
• “The more difficult it is for a person to resist a desire for sexual con- tact with children, the more likely he is to recidivate, and this is an argument for a longer prison sentence.”
• “The more difficult it is for a person to resist a desire for sexual con- tact with children, the more likely he is to recidivate, and this is an argument for a longer prison sentence.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).