Opinion ID: 2977706
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Heading: standard of review

Text: This court reviews challenges to the district court’s sentencing determinations for reasonableness. Gall v. United States, 128 S.Ct. 586, 594 (2007). “We have now split our reasonableness review into two inquiries: procedural reasonableness and substantive reasonableness.” United States v. Collington, 461 F.3d 805, 808 (6th Cir. 2006). We “must first ensure that the district court committed no significant procedural error . . . .” Gall, 128 S.Ct. at 597. After we are assured “that the district court’s sentencing decision is procedurally sound, [we] should then consider the substantive reasonableness of the sentence imposed under an abuse-of-discretion standard.” Id.