United States v. Armstead
United States v. Armstead
Opinion of the Court
ORDER
On March 16, 2007, we ordered a limited remand of Darryl Wilson’s and Sammy Armstead’s cases under United States v. Paladino, 401 F.3d 471 (7th Cir. 2005). See 481 F.3d 475. Upon the district court’s request, the parties submitted briefs regarding resentencing and the factors set forth in 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a). On August 26, 2008, the district court issued an order concluding that had it known it had the discretion to impose a sentence other than the Guidelines sentence for Armstead, it nevertheless would have imposed the same sentence.
Armstead argues now that the district failed to consider his arguments in favor of a lower sentence. In particular, he points out that the district court’s order makes no mention of his argument that his background (what he refers to as his “cultural assimilation” argument) entitled him to a lower sentence. It is true that the district court did not provide much of an explanation for its ruling. But we have held that “on a limited Paladino remand, a judge need not employ a full-fledged methodology for measuring the reasonableness of the Guidelines sentence against § 3553(a).”
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- Full Case Name
- United States v. Sammy ARMSTEAD
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- Published