United States v. Sean Patrick

How courts have described this case

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• remanding where it was unclear from the record whether district court adequately considered defendant’s cooperation
• remanding where it was unclear from the record whether district court adequately considered defendant’s cooperation
• remanding where district court failed to address defendant’s cooperation with authorities, which government itself cited as a basis for below-Guidelines sentence
• “[A] sentence of death in prison is notably harsher than a sentence that stops even a short period before.”
• “Most worrisome is our inability to discern whether the court appreciated the severity of the sentence it imposed, and in particular its equivalence to the life sentence that it purportedly rejected.”
• “Most worrisome is our inability to discern whether the court appreciated the severity of the sentence it imposed, and in particular its equivalence to the life sentence that it purport- edly rejected.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).