Legal Opinion
United States v. Priester
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided July 22, 2011No. 08-2391PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
KETHLEDGE, Circuit Judge.
In some cases we hold the district court to a standard we would dislike imposing on ourselves. This is such a case. Xavier Priester pled guilty to conspiring to distribute crack cocaine, powder cocaine, and marijuana. The district court sentenced him to a within-Guidelines 180 months’ imprisonment. The court’s explanation as to why it chose that sentence was exemplary — with one exception. The exception is what Priester targets here. He argues, specifically, that the district court failed to recognize that it had the authority to “vary categorically” from the…
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