United States v. West

SENTENCING MEMORANDUM 1

YOUNG, District Judge.

I. INTRODUCTION

Given the multi-page judgment and statement of reasons form, AO 245B Judgment in a Criminal Case (05-MA)(Rev.06/05), the written explanations required therein, augmented by the transcript of the detailed explanation rendered in open court of each criminal sentence imposed, I write sentencing memoranda rarely — usually only when remarkable facts or an especially knotty legal question requires such disciplined analysis.

This is not such a case.

Here, the derivation of the particular sentence imposed is fairly straight forward.…