United States v. Travis Robinson

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that “judges may not find facts that increase the maximum punishment and that a mandatory sentencing guidelines scheme violates that rule”
• “When a judge does not properly calculate a guidelines sentence, our review for reasonableness is forestalled.”
• “When a judge does not properly calculate a guidelines sentence, our review for reason- ableness is forestalled.”
• after Booker, “[d]istrict judges must resolve disputed factual issues, determine relevant conduct by a preponderance of the evidence, and apply the appropriate sentence enhancements in order to compute the advisory guidelines sentence range” (citation omitted)
• “[b]y sidestepping [the] determination [of the sentencing facts alleged by the Government], the district judge erred as a matter of law by failing to resolve a disputed sentencing fact essential to a properly calculated guidelines range”
• decided two months before White was sentenced

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).