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· 8/24/2012

United States v. James Waller

Citations

  • 689 F.3d 947
  • 2012 WL 3630307
  • 2012 U.S. App. LEXIS 17934

How courts have described this case

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

  • explaining that other crimes can be relevant to a defendant’s history and characteristics
  • affirming an upward variance from a guidelines range of 10 to 16 months’ imprisonment to 60 months’ imprisonment due to an uncharged murder
  • finding harmless error when “[t]he record indicates that the district court intended to sentence [Waller] to [60] months” (alternation in original)
  • varying upward to impose statutory maximum based on uncharged murder

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Judges: Smith, Beam, Shepherd

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