Legal Opinion
United States v. Donald James King
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided July 11, 2006No. 05-1728PublishedCited by 89 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
SLOVITER, Circuit Judge.
If the procedural requirements for sentencing defendants that this court established are so inflexible that we cannot affirm any sentence when the district court fails to articulate its analysis in precisely the terms of those requirements, then we must vacate the sentence imposed in this case no matter how reasonable we believe it is. Under the circumstances of this case, we will not vacate the sentence imposed by the District Court. Instead, we affirm, but write to dispel any erroneous impression that we have relaxed those requirements. We proceed…
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