U.S. v. Sayad, No. 08-1366 (10th Cir.) (589 F.3d 1110) (December 22, 2009) (Judge Michael R. Murphy)
Here the Court affirmed a sentence of probation after stating that the sentence imposed by a sentencing judge will be deemed to be substantively unreasonable only if it is “arbitrary, capricious, whimsical, or manifestly unreasonable”.
Long after the Supreme Court attempted to put to rest the debate about the degree ...
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