Seventh Circuit· 1/13/2006

United States v. Travis Robinson

Citations

435 F.3d 699
2006 U.S. App. LEXIS 813
2006 WL 73408

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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

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Judges: Posner, Kanne, Sykes

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