United States v. Melissa Christiansen

In the United States Court of Appeals For the Seventh Circuit No. 09-1925 U NITED STATES OF A MERICA, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. M ELISSA C HRISTIANSEN, Defendant-Appellant. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin. No. 08 CR 135—Barbara B. Crabb, Chief Judge. A RGUED N OVEMBER 4, 2009—D ECIDED F EBRUARY 2, 2010 Before C UDAHY, FLAUM, and E VANS, Circuit Judges. E VANS, Circuit Judge. Most sentencing appeals involve long (or at least medium length) prison terms. So, an appeal like the one in this case, involving a short four- month sentence, is fairly…