United States v. Margaret Davis

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that sentencing court need only say enough about argument in mitigation to demonstrate reasonable exercise of “legal decision-making authority”
• “[T]he amount of explanation required from the district court varies with the circumstances. A brief explanation can certainly suffice.” (quotation and citation omitted)
• “We review de novo whether a judge adequately explained her chosen sentence.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).