United States v. Justin Jones

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• stating that the extent of a district court’s departure after it grants a § 5K1.1 motion is an issue “entirely committed to the district judge’s discretion;” this Court has no jurisdiction to review
• “Where, as in this case, the district court grants a downward departure for substantial assistance and the defendant’s claim on appeal goes only to the extent of the departure, this Court has no jurisdiction over the appeal.”
• “Where, as in this case, the district court grants a downward departure for substantial assistance and the defendant’s claim on appeal goes only to the extent of the departure, this Court has no jurisdiction over the appeal.”
• “After Booker, of course, a defendant who received a downward departure for substantial assistance is free to argue that the sentence from which the district court departed was unreasonable in light of 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a)’s sentencing factors.”
• downward departure on U.S.S.G. § 5K1.1 motion

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).