United States v. Stewart Foss

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “any kind of mechanical sentencing that steadfastly ignores individual differences is to be avoided”
• court considered sentencing judge’s record in other cases, but concluded that it was insufficient to prove “a policy of any particular type.”
• \any kind of mechanical sentence that steadfastly ignores individual differences is to be avoided\
• “any kind of mechanical sentence that steadfastly ignores individual differences is to be avoided”
• when individualizing a sentence, district court may consider general deterrence
• when individualizing a sentence, the district court may consider general deterrence

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).