Legal Opinion
United States v. Wireman
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided February 28, 2017No. 15-3291PublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BALDOCK, Circuit Judge.
Reviewing whether a district court adequately explained a defendant’s sentence is more of an art than a science. This inquiry, which goes to the ultimate question whether the defendant’s sentence is procedurally reasonable, Gall v. United States, 552 U.S. 38, 51, 128 S.Ct. 586, 169 L.Ed.2d 445 (2007), compels us to ensure that the district court “considered the parties’ arguments” for different sentences — an obligation that “normally” requires the district court to “explain why [it] ... rejected” any “nonfrivolous” arguments — and that the district court “ha[d] a…
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