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062847P.pdf 04/02/2007 USA v. Charles A. Watson
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 06-2847
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa, Waterloo
[PUBLISHED] [Smith, Author, with Murphy and Hansen, Circuit Judges
Criminal case - Sentencing. Where a district court is aware of its
authority to depart downward, its refusal to do so is unreviewable;
disparity between defendant's sentence and that of a co-defendant
did not make defendant's sentence unreasonable.