United States v. John Nania

How courts have described this case

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• stating that the court is not obligated to impose a concurrent sentence even if USSG § 5G1.3(b) applies
• noting that “an assured life term” is an appropriate “deterrence to criminals who might consider producing child pornography” (emphasis added)
• interpreting Guidelines in a way that “avoids a potentially absurd result”
• “given the advisory nature of the Sentencing Guidelines, a district court has no obligation to impose a concurrent sentence, even if 5G1.3(b) applies” (citations omitted)
• “[Gjiven the advisory nature of the Sentencing Guidelines, a district court has no obligation to impose a concurrent sentence, even if § 5G1.3(b) applies.”
• “In fact, we give the Sentencing Commission’s views on these issues such credit that we have stated a within- Guidelines sentence necessarily takes into account unwar- ranted disparities.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).