Sentencing note.

• Jurisdiction: United States
• Author: Brown, Logan
• Date: 22 September 2014

In 2005, the Supreme Court severed the provision that made the Guidelines mandatory, rendering them "effectively advisory." (1) To meet the requirement of procedural reasonableness, a sentencing court must begin by its sentencing by correctly calculating the Guidelines range, then consider each of the applicable factors in 18 U.S.C. [section] 3553(a). (2) To meet the requirement of substantive reasonableness, a district court must issue a sentence that is consistent with the [section] 3553(a) factors. (3) A sentence within the Guideline range is presumed to be substantively reasonable...