United States v. Perez-Frias

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• concluding that illegal reentry guideline was properly adopted by Commission
• stating that reviewing court “will not second guess the weight (or lack thereof) that the judge accorded to a given factor” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• recognizing “[generally, if the ultimate sentence is reasonable and the sentencing judge did not commit procedural error in imposing that sentence, we will not second guess the weight (or lack thereof
• stating that appeals court will not “second guess the weight (or lack thereof) that the [sentencing] judge accorded to a given factor” if the “ultimate sentence is reasonable” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• “It is . . . difficult to find that a below Guidelines sentence is unreasonable.”
• district court was justified in considering the seriousness of the defendant’s prior conviction in declining to impose a lower sentence

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).