United States v. Verkhoglyad

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• concluding that incarcer-atory sentence above Guidelines policy statement warranted based on defendant’s willingness “repeatedly [to] betray[] the trust reflected” in court’s prior “lenient sentences”
• holding that “we will not assume a failure of consideration simply because a district court fails to enumerate or discuss each [section] 3553(a) factor 5 individually”
• holding that district court’s oral statement of reasons for imposing 57-month sentence for possession of drugs while on probation was sufficient, where Guidelines range was 5 to 11 months
• holding that the district court reasonably imposed an above-Guidelines revocation sentence where the defendant had “repeatedly betrayed the trust reflected” in the lenient sentences imposed for the underlying conviction and for prior convictions
• holding that explanation for non- Guidelines sentence need not be “extensive or detailed”
• holding that we do not require “that a particular factor be given determinative or dispositive weight” because “the weight to be afforded any § 3553(a) factor is a matter firmly committed to the discretion of the sentencing judge”

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