United States v. Lente, No. 10-2194 (10th Cir. 2011)
Annotate this CaseDefendant Camille Lente challenged her sentence as procedurally and substantially unreasonable. Defendant killed three young men and seriously injured a young woman in a car accident that occurred when she was driving while drunk. She pled guilty to three counts of involuntary manslaughter and one count of assault resulting in serious bodily injury. She was originally sentenced to eighteen years in prison which represented a significant upward variance from her proposed Guidelines range of 46 to 57 months' imprisonment. A divided Tenth Circuit panel vacated her sentence and remanded it for resentencing in an unpublished opinion. On resentencing, the district court reduced Defendant's sentence to sixteen years in prison. Upon review, the Tenth Circuit concluded that the district court failed to address Defendant's argument regarding the need to avoid unwanted sentencing disparities constituted reversible procedural error. The Court reversed the lower court's sentence and remanded the case for resentencing.
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