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151004P.pdf 05/03/2016 United States v. Fernando Martinez
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 15-1004
U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska - Lincoln
[PUBLISHED] [Bye, Author, with Loken and Kelly, Circuit Judges]
Criminal case - Sentencing. The government concedes defendant is no longer
a career offender under the residual clause of Section 4B1.2(a)(2) of the
Sentencing Guidelines as his conviction for escape is no longer a crime of
violence following the Supreme Court's decision in Johnson v. United
States, 135 S. Ct 2551 (2015); however, the court's alternative sentence
is substantively unreasonable because the degree of the variance - from a
guidelines range of 121-151 months to range of 262-327 months - was not
supported by the factors cited by the district court. Judge Loken,
concurring.