Sentencing
No plain error in within-guidelines sentence issued without explanation, as the sentencing judge adopted the findings of the PSR, which contains the justifications for the sentence.
Checkbox on sentencing form imposing a within-guidelines sentence risks legal error. Explicit request to Congress that it amend it.
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Since 2011. An occasional commonplacing of the U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeal.
Neither an authoritative statement of the law nor legal advice. Quick work.