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061613P.pdf   02/26/2007  USA  v.  M. Gonzalez-Alvarado
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  06-1613
   U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa - Davenport   
   [PUBLISHED] [Benton, Author, with Murphy and Arnold, Circuit
   Judges]
   criminal case - Sentencing. The district court erred in granting a 64%
   reduction from the applicable Guideline, as there was nothing in
   defendant's history or family circumstances justifying such an
   extraordinary reduction; the court also erred in basing its reduction on the
   absence of a "fast-track" program in Iowa, as a decision to vary from the
   advisory guidelines on this basis conflicts with Congress's decision to
   limit the availability of such sentences to select geographical areas.