Opinion ID: 1261992
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Heading: standard of review

Text: We review sentences imposed by the district court for reasonableness. United States v. Conrad Smith, 474 F.3d 888, 892 (6th Cir.2007) (citing United States v. Collington, 461 F.3d 805, 807 (6th Cir.2006)). We afford sentences within the applicable Guidelines range the presumption of reasonableness. United States v. Foreman, 436 F.3d 638, 644 (6th Cir.2006). That does not mean, however, that a sentence outside of the Guidelines range either higher or loweris presumptively unreasonable. Id.; Collington, 461 F.3d at 808. A sentence outside the Guidelines carries with it no legal presumption. Rita v. United States, 551 U.S. ___, 127 S.Ct. 2456, 2467, 168 L.Ed.2d 203 (2007). With its recent decision in Gall v. United States, ___ U.S. ___, 128 S.Ct. 586, 169 L.Ed.2d 445 (2007), the Supreme Court has explicitly reined in appellate review of sentences, holding that we must review every sentence that is free from significant procedural error under a deferential abuse-of-discretion standard, regardless of whether the sentence is within the Guidelines range or significantly outside it. Id. at 597-98.