United States v. Pickar

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• stating that a sentencing court’s decision to assign greater weight to a defendant’s criminal history than mitigating factors is “well within its wide sentencing latitude”
• district court emphasized that the defendant needed to be deterred and was a danger to the public, and then noted that a longer sentence would provide the defendant with needed care and treatment
• \The court's decision to assign greater weight to [the defendant's] criminal history and the nature of his offense than to mitigating personal factors was well within its wide sentencing latitude.\
• district court emphasized that the defendant needed to be deterred and was a danger to the public, and then noted that a longer sentence would provide the defendant with needed care and treatment
• district court emphasized that the defendant needed to be deterred and was a danger to the public, and then noted that a longer sentence would provide the defendant with needed care and treatment

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).