United States v. Winebarger

How courts have described this case

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

• ”[P]istrict courts are required to sentence defendants guilty of that crime to a teirm'of imprisonment no less than'the Congressionally prescribed minimum, unless an explicit exception to the minimum sentence applies.”
• “[D]istrict courts are required to sentence defendants guilty of that crime to a term of imprisonment no less than the Congressionally prescribed minimum, unless an explicit exception to the minimum sentence applies.”
• “We note that every circuit court of appeals to address the issue we face today has held that a court may not use factors unrelated to a defendant’s assistance to the government in reducing the defendant’s sentence below the statutory minimum.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).