United States v. Troy David Chaika

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the disparity between the defendant’s sentence and the lower sentence of a more culpable co- conspirator was warranted because “[a] defendant’s cooperation with the government is a legitimate basis for sentencing disparity”
• noting that weighing the probative value of evidence against its prejudicial effect is committed to the sound discretion of the district court
• approving of different sentences for co-conspirators when only one “helped the Government substantially in proving its case” (quotation marks omitted)
• Whether or not mortgages “were sold by the initial lender in a secondary mortgage market ... greatly alters the determination of the victims’ actual loss.”
• Whether or not mortgages “were sold by the initial lender in a secondary mortgage market . . . greatly alters the determination of the victims’ actual loss.”
• “A defendant’s cooperation with the government is a legitimate basis for sentencing disparity.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).