United States v. Lofink

How courts have described this case

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• noting district courts “need not explicitly comment on every factor if the record makes clear the court took the [§ 3553] factors into account in sentencing” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• vacating a sentence where the court could not infer from the record whether the district court’s denial of a departure motion was discretionary, in part because “the government ... argued to the District Court that [the defendant] was not eligible for [the] departure”
• vacating a sentence where the court could not infer from the record whether the district court’s denial of a departure motion was discretionary, in part because “the government . . . argued to the District Court that [the defendant] was not eligible for [a] departure”
• where the defendant formally moved for a downward departure under § 5K2.13 of the Guidelines
• “we are not at liberty to review a discretionary denial.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).