United States v. Frantz Pierre

Our court has not previously decided whether “[t]he statutory direction to avoid unwarranted disparities among defendants [in accordance with] 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a)(6) refers to national disparities [rather than] differences among co-conspirators.” Supra at 850. See Fry, 792 F.3d at 892-93 (noting in dicta that “[m]ost courts say that the statutory direction to avoid unwarranted sentence disparities, see 18 U.S.C, § 3553(a)(6), refers to national disparities, not differences among co-conspirators” but affirming defendant’s longer sentence as substantively reasonable when compared to sentences…