· 7/20/2006
United States v. Larone Cook
Citations
- 453 F.3d 775
- 2006 U.S. App. LEXIS 18164
- 2006 WL 2009027
How courts have described this case
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- holding that defendant’s sentence based on facts other than those found by the jury or admitted by defendant did not violate the Sixth Amendment because he was sentenced under advisory, rather than mandatory, sentencing guidelines
- explaining that “Booker . . . has no bearing on advisory guideline calculations”
- “Because the guidelines are now advisory and not mandatory, a District Court may rely on extra-verdict facts or on those other than which the defendant has specifically admitted when it calculates [the defendant’s] sentence.”
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Judges: Daughtrey, Cook, Carr
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