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052263P.pdf 01/06/2006 United States v. Marlin Hawk Wing
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 05-2263
District of South Dakota
[PUBLISHED] [Smith, Author, with Loken, Chief Judge, and Bye, Circuit Judge]
Criminal case - Sentencing. The Presentence Report gave defendant
adequate notice of the possibility of an upward departure and fulfilled the
notice requirement of Rule 32; district court did not err in considering
defendant's prior guilty pleas in setting criminal history score; while the
court could not rely on active arrest warrants, it had other adequate
grounds for the upward departure, and any error in considering the arrests
was harmless; after a district court chooses imprisonment as the proper
punishment, it is not prohibited under 18 U.S.C. Sec. 3582 from
considering correction and rehabilitation in determining the length of a
defendant's sentence; sentence was reasonable. Chief Judge Loken,
concurring.