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U.S. v. CARTER

Docket No. 11-3605-cr.

696 F.3d 229 (2012)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Ronald CARTER, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: September 28, 2012.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel Hanlon , Paula Ryan Conan , Assistant United States Attorneys, for Richard S. Hartunian , United States Attorney for the Northern District of New York, Syracuse, NY, for Appellee United States of America.

James P. Trainor , Cutler, Trainor, & Cutler LLP, Malta, NY, for Defendant-Appellant Ronald Carter.

Before: LEVAL, CABRANES, and KATZMANN, Circuit Judges.

JOSÉ A. CABRANES, Circuit Judge:

This case reminds us of the tension in federal criminal law between two competing but overlapping systems for imposing a sentence. In most cases, a sentencing court computes the relevant range under the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines, now advisory under the teaching of United States v. Booker, 543 U.S. 220, 125 S.Ct. 738, 160 L.Ed.2d 621 (2005), before making its own determination of an appropriate...

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