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Tenth Circuit· 3/4/2008

United States v. Smart

Citations

  • 518 F.3d 800
  • 2008 U.S. App. LEXIS 4635
  • 2008 WL 570804

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding appellate courts must grant deference “not only to a district court’s factual findings but also to its determinations of the weight to be afforded to such findings.”
  • holding appellate courts must grant deference \not only to a district court's factual findings but also to its determinations of the weight to be afforded to such findings.\
  • stating that we cannot examine the weight that a district court assigns to statutory sentencing factors
  • holding this court must give substantial deference to the district court’s weighing of the § 3553(a) factors
  • noting that “a substantive component” of the requisite reasonableness review of sentences “relates to the length of the resulting sentence”
  • describing how differences in culpability may offset differences in acceptance of responsibility

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Judges: Henry, Lucero, Hartz

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Cites

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