U.S. v. CHRISTIANSEN

No. 09-1925.

594 F.3d 571 (2010)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Melissa CHRISTIANSEN, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided February 2, 2010.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Elizabeth Altman (argued), Office of the United States Attorney, Madison, WI, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Michael W. Lieberman (argued), Assistant Federal Public Defender, Federal Defender Services, Madison, WI, for Defendant-Appellant.

Before CUDAHY, FLAUM, and EVANS, Circuit Judges.


EVANS, Circuit Judge.

Most sentencing appeals involve long (or at least medium length) prison terms. So, an appeal like the one in this case, involving a short four-month sentence, is fairly uncommon. And although the four-month sentence was imposed after the district court determined that the advisory guideline range was four to ten months based on two enhancements that are now challenged on appeal, the sentence could have easily still been a four-month term (the...

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