Legal Opinion
United States v. Juan Castillo
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided August 16, 2006No. Docket 05-3454-CRPublishedCited by 61 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KATZMANN, Circuit Judge.
This appeal calls upon us to decide whether a district court’s sentence can be upheld as reasonable when it is based solely on the district court’s policy disagreement with how the United States Sentencing Guidelines treat crack cocaine offenses as compared to powder cocaine offenses, notwithstanding Congress’s repeated rejection of proposals to alter that treatment.
The federal statute governing drug offenses calls for mandatory minimum sentences to be imposed according to drug quantity as measured by weight, where the quantity needed to trigger each minimum varies by…
2Cases cited33 opinions
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