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U.S. v. Amezcua-Vasquez, No. 07-50239 (9th Cir.) (567 F.3d 1050) (June 1, 2009) (Judge Jr. William C. Canby)

Loaded on May 1, 2009 published in Punch and Jurists May 18, 2009
Filed under: Punch And Jurists, Substantively Unreasonable.

We believe that this is the first published decision by a Circuit Court of Appeals in which a within-Guidelines sentence has been held to be substantively unreasonable; and, while the panel’s ruling is highly fact-specific, the principles underlying this decision appear to have general application to many illegal reentry cases ...

 

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