United States v. Tapia-Romero

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• concluding, “§ 3553(a) neither requires, nor allows, a court to consider the cost of imprisonment in determining the appropriate length of a defendant’s term of imprisonment”
• noting that when imposing sentence, district court must recognize that UNITED STATES v. AUTERY 1803 “imprisonment is not an appropriate means of promoting cor- rection and rehabilitation”
• holding, post-Booker, -Gall, and -Kimbrough, that “Congress has not made the cost to society of a defendant’s imprisonment a factor [that] a sentencing judge should consider under [18 U.S.C.] § 3553(a

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