United States v. Samuel L. Eakman, Jr.

How courts have described this case

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

• articulating the test as “whether (1) the district court made an objectively ascertainable error (one that does not require courts to probe the mind of the sentencing judge) and (2) the district court materially relied on that error in determining the appropriate sentence”
• “[A] prisoner is not entitled to a hearing unless there is some basis in the record to support the prisoner’s contention . . . .”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).