United States v. Mejia-Huerta

How courts have described this case

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• “A sentencing error will be considered harmless if the government can establish beyond a reasonable doubt that the district court would have imposed the same sentence absent the error.”
• “When a sentencing court found such an exception and exercised its limited discretion to sentence outside the applicable Guidelines range, the court was said to be engaging in a ‘departure’ from the Guidelines.”
• “[P]ost-Booker, a sentencing court may impose a non-Guidelines sentence, i.e., a “variance[,]” . . . if it calculates the proper sentencing range and references the broad array of factors set forth in § 3553(a).”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).