United States v. Vargas-Garcia

How courts have described this case

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

• observing that sentencing court “need only identify the main factors behind its decision”
• observing that \most courts hold that an objection in the district court is not needed to preserve a claim that a sentence is substantively unreasonable\ and assuming that abuse of discretion is the proper standard
• observing that sentencing court \need only identify the main factors behind its decision\
• explaining that \the statutory mandatory minimum sentence is the guideline sentence\
• “While the defendant points to some mitigating considerations, a sentencing court is entitled to conduct ah appropriate triage and weigh some factors more heavily than others.”
• “While the defendant points to some mitigating considerations, a sentencing court is entitled to conduct an appropriate triage and weigh some factors more heavily than others.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).