United States v. Madera-Ortiz

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that it is \[t]he sentencing court's task [] to sift the available information and balance the pertinent factors (both mitigating and aggravating)\
• considering alleged failure to \fully consider mitigating circumstances\ under substantive reasonableness
• “To be sure, the sentencing court’s explanation for the sentence is terse. But brevity is not to be confused with inattention.” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• “[0]n appeal, the fact that the court stated that it had considered all the section 3553(a) factors is entitled to some weight.” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• characterizing a similar argument as substantive
• analyzing the same under substantive reasonableness

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).