United States v. Merrival

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• reviewing the substantive reasonableness of a post-revocation sentence under an abuse-of-discretion standard
• affirming a revocation sentence where the district court varied upward from the guidelines range of 5 to 11 months to 24 months based on the defendant’s recidivism, failure to rehabilitate, and attempted falsification of a drug test
• finding 13 month upward variance reasonable for same reason
• reviewing revocation sentence for an abuse of discretion

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