United States v. Douglas, No. 11-5384 (2d Cir. 2013)
Annotate this CaseDefendant pled guilty to a two-count superseding information charging him with conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and cocaine. On appeal, defendant challenged his sentence as substantively unreasonable. The court held that the above-guidelines sentences must be justified by reference to specific reasons that place the case outside the run of ordinary cases, and that the further the sentence departed from the typical sentence imposed for the conduct of conviction, the greater the justification that was required. The court concluded that the district court gave sufficient reasons to support its unusually long sentence in this case and, therefore, the court affirmed the judgment.
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