United States v. Wurzinger, Richard C

How courts have described this case

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• affirming district court’s refusal to tailor the defendant’s federal sentence to that which his co-conspirators received in state court
• affirming de facto life sentence where defendant had an above-average tendency to crime in his old age
• “Wurzinger argues that older offenders are generally less likely to commit crime, but ... what matters is whether the court reasonably concluded that Wurzinger in particular is a risk for further crimes.”
• noting “worthy tradition that death in prison is not to be ordered lightly, and the probability that a convict will not live out his sentence should certainly give pause to a sentencing court,” but affirming within-guideline sentence longer than defendant’s life expectancy
• even if “older offenders are gener- ally less likely to commit crime,” “what matters is whether the court reasonably concluded that [the defendant] in particular is a risk for further crimes”
• even if “older offenders are gener- ally less likely to commit crime,” “what matters is whether the court reasonably concluded that [the defendant] in particular is a risk for further crimes”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).