United States Seventh Circuit

In a prosecution of defendant for distributing cocaine, district court's imposition of an above-Guidelines sentence of 327 months' imprisonment is affirmed where: 1) district court's application of the statutory factors to the facts of defendant's case produced a sentence firmly anchored to the considerations required by section 3553(a); 2) the court was not required to follow section 4A1.3 as it need articulate its sentence only with reference to the section 3553(a) factors; 3) the court extensively considered the section 3553(a) sentencing factors on remand; and 4) because the court conducted an intelligent and exhaustive analysis of the section 3553(a) factors, its decision to impose a consecutive sentence was reasonable.

Appellate Information

• Argued 07/08/2010
• Decided 08/19/2010
• Published 08/19/2010

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• United States Seventh Circuit

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