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061667P.pdf   10/10/2008  USA  v.  Francisco Garate
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  06-1667
   U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa - Davenport   
   [PUBLISHED] [Hansen, Author, with Murphy and Smith, Circuit Judges]
Criminal case - Sentencing. On remand from the United States Supreme Court for reconsideration under Gall. For the court's earlier opinion, see U.S. v. Garate, 482 F.3d 1013 (8th Cir. 2007), vacated, 128 S.Ct. 862 (2008). Thirty-month sentence was not substantively unreasonable as the court considered the relevant factors under 18 U.S.C. Sec. 3553(a) and gave detailed reasons for sentencing defendant below the advisory guidelines range. 061667P.pdf 04/03/2007 USA v. Francisco Garate U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 06-1667 U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa - Davenport [PUBLISHED] [Murphy, Author, with Hansen and Smith, Circuit Judges]
Criminal case - Sentencing. District court gave undue weight to defendant's youth and his lack of a prior criminal record in granting a substantial sentencing variance; court also failed to give appropriate weight to a number of aggravating factors when it set sentence; case remanded for resentencing.