Legal Opinion

United States v. Tristan-Madrigal

Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

Decided April 20, 2010No. 09-1003PublishedCited by 124 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION

KAREN NELSON MOORE, Circuit Judge.

Defendant Sergio Tristan-Madrigal appeals the district court’s imposition of a thirty-six month, above-Guidelines sentence as substantively unreasonable. Tristan-Madrigal argues that the district court’s upward variance overemphasized his criminal history and that no information in the record supported a variance of the magnitude that the district court imposed. He additionally contends that the district court provided unreasonable weight to his need for rehabilitation because it believed that Tristan-Madrigal would benefit from custodial drug-abuse…

2Cases cited11 opinions

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  2. Irizarry v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 2008
  3. United States v. Neil E. Campbell Paul Carpenter Rickey D. JonesCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 2002
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