United States v. Styer

How courts have described this case

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

• holding on an abuse-of-discretion standard that a defendant “was not entitled to an evidentiary hearing on his § 3582(c)(2) 10 motion”
• explaining that we review the sentence resulting from a modification under § 3582(c) for reasonableness
• “The determination as to whether a reduction is warranted…is committed to the discretion of the district court.”
• District Court should consider whether reducing the defendant’s sentence would pose a danger to the community
• a resentencing court’s “weighing and consideration of multiple factors, [is] expressly left to a court’s discretion, [and] is exactly the type of reasoned appraisal to which we defer on review.” (internal quotations omitted)
• “While [the Defendant] disagrees with the comparatively little weight the Court accorded his post-conviction conduct in relation to other factors, we cannot conclude that the Court’s reasoned balancing of those factors was an abuse of discretion.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).