Court Opinion

ID: 9751793
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-28 17:04:45.495629+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:42:50.189123
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MURPHY, Circuit Judge,
dissenting from denial of rehearing en banc.
I dissent from the denial of rehearing en banc. Following the Supreme Court’s guidance in Gall v. United States, 552 U.S. 38, 128 S.Ct. 586, 169 L.Ed.2d 445 (2007), and subsequent cases, our court has generally considered a procedurally correct guideline sentence to be reasonable. That deference is no doubt based in part on the fact that the United States Sentencing Commission has generally had a large database of previous offenses to consider in formulating guidelines. In this case Judge Bright has demonstrated that that may not have been true for the offense of neonatieide despite the assurances given to the district court before it imposed sentence. In my view this is an issue meriting en banc review.
The petition for rehearing by the panel is also denied.