United States Second Circuit

Defendant's sentence to 54 months' imprisonment for possession of controlled substances, while an inmate of a federal prison, is affirmed, where: 1) above-guidelines sentences must be justified by reference to specific reasons that place the case outside the run of ordinary cases, and the further the sentence departs from the typical sentence imposed for the conduct of conviction, the greater the justification that is required; and 2) here, the district court's sentence was substantively reasonable in light of the particular facts of defendant's case.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/15/2013
• Published 04/15/2013

Judges

• LYNCH

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel