United States v. Lata

How courts have described this case

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

• commenting that “after-the- offense enlargement of the . . . maximum sentence by judicial construction can raise due process objections based on lack of fair warning but only where the alteration is ‘unexpected and indefensible’ by reference to the case law”
• rejecting an ex post facto claim based on the remedial holding in Booker
• “Whether or not exactly the same sentence would necessarily have been imposed [pre-Booker ] by departures under the guidelines is necessarily uncertain.” (emphasis added)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).