United States v. Rigas

How courts have described this case

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• observing that substantive reasonableness review provides defendant relief from sentence “only in the proverbial ‘rare’ case”
• observing that substantive reasonableness review provides defendant relief from sentence “only in the proverbial ‘rare’ case”
• explaining that de novo resentencing is the “default rule” after a conviction is vacated on appeal
• explaining that substantive unreasonableness is akin to the “manifest-injustice,” and “shocks-the-conscience” standards employed in other contexts
• noting that the manifest injustice standard is “highly contextual and [does] not permit easy repetition in successive cases . . . [and is] dependent on the informed intuition of the appellate panel that applies” the standard
• affirming district court’s loss estimate because even under defendant’s proposed alternative calculation, the amount would “still satisfy” the applicable Guidelines threshold

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).