United States v. Shalon Dragon

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that “judges need not routinely state that they have read the entire guidelines manual or all policy statements of the United States Sentencing Commission”
• “[The defendant] claims his sentence is unreasonable under Booker because the District Court failed to adequately consider the parsimony provision of 3553(a
• “[A]n error affects substantial rights when it is prejudicial, i.e., it ‘affected the outcome of the district court proceedings.’” (quoting United States v. Olano, 507 U.S. 725, 734 (1993))
• a plain sentencing error is one that “is ‘clear’ or ‘obvious’” and that “‘affected the outcome of the district court proceedings’” (quoting United States v. Olano, 507 U.S. 725, 732-34 (1993))
• stating “we will not elevate form over substance”
• “[T]he court is not required to discuss and make findings as to each of the § 3553(a) factors ‘if the record makes clear the court took the factors into account in sentencing.’” (quoting United States v. Cooper, 437 F.3d 324, 329 (3d Cir. 2006))

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).