United States v. Friedman

ORDER AND JUDGMENT *

NEIL M. GORSUCH, Circuit Judge.

Charles Friedman has spent much of his adult life robbing banks. He’s admitted to eight bank robberies in all — and he’s committed many more violent felonies besides, ranging from attempted escape to assault with a deadly weapon. His current appeal arises from the robbery of a Chase bank in Utah in November 2005. When it came time for sentencing, and relying on a largely unexplained “feeling,” the district court imposed a prison term of 57 months — even though the guidelines advised a sentence of between 151 and 188 months for a career…