United States v. James J. Severino

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that “district judges issue sentencing decisions from the bench in ‘spontaneous remarks’ that are ‘unlikely to be a perfect or complete statement of all of the surrounding law.’ ”
• holding that district courts may consider “extraordinary acceptance of responsibility” in weighing statutory factors
• “Isolating certain statements of the court to suggest that the court somehow felt obligated to follow the Guidelines ignores the context of those statements.”
• “Isolating certain statements of the court to suggest that the court somehow felt obligated to follow the Guidelines ignores the context of those statements.”
• questioning validity of Lieberman in light of recent amendments to the Guidelines

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).