United States Sixth Circuit

A sentence for armed bank robbery pursuant to a plea agreement is affirmed over claims of error that the district court treated the sentencing guidelines as presumptively mandatory and that it did not properly consult the factors, and that the sentence imposed was unreasonable.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/12/2006
• Published 05/12/2006

Judges

• Before:  KENNEDY, COLE, and McKEAGUE, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Sixth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  M. Dianne Smothers, Office of the Federal Public Defender, Memphis, Tennessee, for Appellant.  Victor L. Ivy, Assistant United States Attorney, Jackson, Tennessee, for Appellee.   ON BRIEF:  M. Dianne Smothers, Office of the Federal Public Defender, Memphis, Tennessee, for Appellant.  Victor L. Ivy, Assistant United States Attorney, Jackson, Tennessee, for Appellee.