United States v. Rene Sanchez

How courts have described this case

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• holding that this court focuses “on the district court’s statements in the context of the sentencing proceeding as a whole.”
• stating that 18 U.S.C. § 3553(c) requires sentencing courts to “provide a reasoned basis for their sentences”
• declining to reverse a sentencing judge’s refusal to grant a downward variance where the record showed the judge had considered the variance
• adopting “a pragmatic, totality-of-the- circumstances review into whether the district court evaluated the parties’ sentencing arguments and rooted its sentence in permissible sentencing factors.”
• declining to reverse a sentencing judge’s refusal to grant a downward variance where the record showed the judge had considered the variance
• a reasoned award should include “a few words ... rejecting” the losing party’s -key contentions

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