Background
Lacyrus Green pleaded guilty to federal carjacking in violation of Section eighteen two one one nine. The district court sentenced him to ninety-five months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, varying upward from the advisory guidelines range of fifty-one to sixty-three months.
The court’s reasoning
The sole issue on review was whether the sentence was substantively unreasonable. The court applied the abuse of discretion standard established in Gall versus United States and United States versus Diehl. The court concluded the district court did not abuse its discretion.
What it means going forward
The decision reinforces the deferential abuse of discretion standard applied to substantive reasonableness reviews of upward variances in federal sentencing cases.
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