Instructions: In this task, you will be shown a prompt from a judicial decision and multiple holding statements derived from citations following text in a legal decision. Holdings represent the governing legal rule when the law is applied to a particular set of facts. There are five answer choices for each citing text. The correct answer is the holding statement that corresponds to the citing text. The four incorrect answers are other holding statements. You should find the correct option. There is a <HOLDING> token in the position of the citing text prompt where the holding statement was extracted.
Input: the defendant's guideline range. See United States v. Williams, 526 F.3d 1312, 1323-24 (11th Cir.2008) (as part of history and characteristics of the defendant, district court could consider defendant's prior offenses in deciding to impose an upward variance, even though those offenses were already included in the defendant's criminal history score); see also 18 U.S.C. 3661 ("No limitation shall be placed on the information concerning the background, character, and conduct of a person convicted of an offense which a court of the United States may receive and sidered the 3553(a) factors, "considered the parties' arguments and ha[d] a reasoned basis for exercising [its] own legal decisionmaking authority." Rita, 551 U.S. at 356, 127 S.Ct. at 2468; see also Talley, 431 F.3d at 786 (<HOLDING>). Regarding Cooper's argument that the court
Holding statements: (A) holding that the district court is not required to state on the record that it has explicitly considered each of the 3553a factors or to discuss each of the 3553a factors (B) holding that there must be sufficient evidence in the record to affirmatively demonstrate the courts consideration of the relevant section 3553a factors (C) holding that nothing in booker or elsewhere requires the district court to state on the record that it has explicitly considered each of the 3553a factors or to discuss each of the 3553a factors (D) recognizing that many of the 3553a factors are already incorporated into any guidelines determination and the 3553a factors can themselves overlap (E) holding that it is sufficient for a court to acknowledge its consideration of the parties arguments and the 3553a factors
Output:
(E)