United States v. Jorge Alberto Navarro

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• noting that “[a] classification does not fail rational-basis review because it is not made with mathematical nicety or because in practice it results in some inequality”
• choosing to exercise its discretion to reach the merits of the defendant’s unpreserved constitutional claim because the court had “little doubt” that the defendant “failed to demonstrate a constitutional violation”
• “Simply put, the restrictions and rules associated with sentencing do not carry over to sentence reduction proceedings!.]”
• “[R]ational-basis review allows for 7 decisions based on rational speculation unsupported by evidence or empirical data.”
• “[T]he restrictions and rules associated with sentencing do not carry over to sentence reduction proceedings, which are instead governed by their own set of rules.”
• delayed implementation of Sentencing Guidelines Amendments 782 and 788 provided necessary time for review and preparation

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