United States v. Mathew Meyer, Also Known as Mathew Salem

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• affirming a fifty percent upward variance because recent amendments to the Guidelines would have put the sentence substantially below the mandatory sentence under the amended Guidelines
• collecting cases in which we labeled 57%, 54%, and 50% downward variances extraordinary and holding that a 50% upward departure of 90 months was extraordinary and reasonable
• stating that a ninety month, 50% upward variance was extraordinary
• affirming a fifty percent upward variance because recent amendments to the Guidelines would have put the sentence substantially below the mandatory sentence under the amended Guidelines
• collecting cases in which we labeled 57%, 54%, and 50% downward variances extraordinary and holding that a 50% upward departure of 90 months was extraordinary and reasonable
• affirming as reasonable an “extraordinary” upward variance of 50% or 90 months where extraordinary circumstances supported the variance from an advisory Guidelines sentence of 180 months to an actual sentence of 270 months

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