United States v. Pyles

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Precedent requires the district court to consider each and every non-frivolous argument for mitigation, but does not require the judge to address expressly each argument on the record when pronouncing the sentence. The D.C. Circuit affirmed defendant's 132 month sentence after he was convicted of criminal conduct involving child pornography, holding that the district court committed no obvious or plain error. In this case, defendant failed to show that it was an obvious error for the district court to fail to expressly state that all of defendant's mitigation arguments were appropriately considered but nonetheless rejected. View "United States v. Pyles" on Justia Law