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DORSEY v. UNITED STATES
intent to distribute 50 grams of crack but 5,000 grams of powder. The United States Sentencing ... Commission—which is charged under the Sentencing Reform Act of 1984 with writing the Federal Sentencing ... the best way to keep similar drug-trafficking sentences proportional, thereby satisfying the ...
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RITA v. UNITED STATES
sought a sentence lower than the recommended Federal Guidelines range of 33 to 41 months based on his ... appropriate sentence was 33 months, the bottom of the Guidelines range. In affirming, the Fourth Circuit ... observed that a sentence imposed within a properly calculated Guidelines range is presumptively reasonable. ...
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GALL v. UNITED STATES
a sentence of 30 to 37 months in prison, but the District Court sentenced Gall to 36 months’ ... ground that a sentence outside the Federal Sentencing Guidelines range must be—and was not in ... difference between a particular sentence and the recommended Guidelines range is relevant, courts of appeals ...
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Coker v. Georgia
Marshall CDInPart, Powell Dissent, Burger Syllabus While serving various sentences for murder, rape, ... and the other offenses and sentenced to death on the rape charge, when the jury found two of the ... aggravating circumstances present for imposing such a sentence, viz., that the rape was committed (1) by ...
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Coker v. Georgia
Marshall CDInPart, Powell Dissent, Burger Syllabus While serving various sentences for murder, rape, ... and the other offenses and sentenced to death on the rape charge, when the jury found two of the ... aggravating circumstances present for imposing such a sentence, viz., that the rape was committed (1) by ...
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Coker v. Georgia
Marshall CDInPart, Powell Dissent, Burger Syllabus While serving various sentences for murder, rape, ... and the other offenses and sentenced to death on the rape charge, when the jury found two of the ... aggravating circumstances present for imposing such a sentence, viz., that the rape was committed (1) by ...
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MOLINA-MARTINEZ v. UNITED STATES
range but sentences the defendant within the correct range. Pp. 8–16. Syllabus [HTML] [PDF] Opinion, ... 20, 2016 The Federal Sentencing Guidelines first enter the sentencing process when the United States ... sentencing.” United States v. Booker, 543 U. S. 220, 264. Given the Guidelines’ complexity, a District Court’s ...
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PEUGH v. UNITED STATES
occurred in 1999 and 2000. At sentencing, he argued that the Ex Post Facto Clause required that he be ... sentenced under the 1998 version of the Federal Sentencing Guidelines in effect at the time of his offenses ... rather than under the 2009 version in effect at the time of sentencing. Under the 1998 Guidelines, ...
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LAFLER v. COOPER
a 51-to-85-month sentence on the other two, in exchange for a guilty plea. In a communication with the court, ... and received a mandatory minimum 185-to-360-month sentence. In a subsequent hearing, the state trial ... that respondent suffered prejudice because he lost the opportunity to take the more favorable sentence ...
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BECKLES v. UNITED STATES
investigation report concluded that he was eligible for a sentencing enhancement as a “career offender” under ... United States Sentencing Guideline §4B1.1(a) because his offense qualified as a “crime of violence” under ... §4B1.2(a)’s residual clause. The District Court sentenced petitioner as a career offender, and the Eleventh ...