United States v. Robin Dickerson

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a sentencing error was plain “given the clarity of the statutory language and the notice included in the PSR”
• district court‟s impermissibly lenient sentence could constitute “plain error” because “Congress‟s interest in imprisoning certain . . . offenders is a „right‟ to which the citizenry is entitled”
• “[W]e are convinced that the error was ‘plain,’ given the clarity of the statutory language . . . .”
• “[W]e are to continue to apply an abuse of discretion standard as we review the extent of departures that have been properly granted.”
• “[W]e are convinced that the error was ‘plain,’ given the clarity of the statutory language . . . .”
• “[W]e are to continue to apply an abuse of discretion standard as we review the extent of departures that have been properly granted.”

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