United States v. Abu Ali

With respect, I dissent from the majority’s decision to reverse, as unreasonably lenient, Abu Ali’s sentence of thirty years’ imprisonment followed by thirty years’ supervised release. In sentencing Abu Ali, the district court correctly calculated the Guidelines range and carefully considered the applicable statutory factors. The court then explained its several, entirely reasonable justifications for finding this sentence — a sentence less than the Guidelines recommendation of life imprisonment, *270but substantially more than the twenty-year statutory minimum — “sufficient, but not greater than…