Fifth Circuit· 7/12/2011

United States v. McElwee

Citations

646 F.3d 328
2011 WL 2686447

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noting our court has “upheld substantial Guidelines deviations” when “district court based its upward variance on permissible, properly spelled-out considerations”
affirming a 36-month sentence that was six times as long as the top of the guidelines range
considering first the procedural reasonableness of a sentence before the substantive reasonableness where the “core of Appellants’ complaints on appeal” were challenges to substantive reasonableness
considering first the procedural reasonableness of a sentence before the substantive reasonableness where the “core of Appellants’ complaints on appeal” were challenges to substantive reasonableness
affirming above-guidelines fine on plain error review where fine was well within statutory maximum and defendant failed to show that he was unable to pay it
deferring to the district after it “explicitly” considered the § 3553(a) factors

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Judges: Jolly, Haynes, Vance

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