United States v. Patricia Shuman and James Rodney Shuman

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• stating that parental influence factor was not taken into consideration by the Sentencing Commission in drafting the Guidelines and concluding that the use of a custodial relationship to force child to engage in criminal conduct is a valid aggravating factor
• applying an analogy not used by district court to conclude sentence was reasonable
• applying an analogy not used by district court to conclude sentence was reasonable
• if Commission did not give adequate consideration to aggravating circumstance, court must determine whether consideration of circumstance is consistent with goals of Sentencing Guidelines
• Upward sentence departure for mother’s “willful incorporation of her son into the drug-trafficking business.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).