United States v. Sheldon Lynn Bryant

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• holding that while the factors of a limited criminal history and being drug-free for nine months “might well be sufficient to justify some variance from the presumptively reasonable guideline range, they do not justify a fifty-seven percent variance”
• noting that “there is a range of reasonableness available to the district court in any given case”
• holding a fifty-seven percent variance extraordinary
• holding a fifty-seven percent variance extraordinary
• “applicable guideline range already reflected two significant reductions of [defendant’s] sentence due to his limited criminal history .... it was unreasonable for the district court to use that criminal history as justification for an extraordinary variance”
• \applicable guideline range already reflected two significant reductions of [defendant's] sentence due to his limited criminal history. . . . it was unreasonable for the district court to use that criminal history as justification for an extraordinary variance\

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