U.S. v. Brown

Govt. was entitled to new sentencing hearing after Dist. Ct. sentencing defendant, as career offender, to statutory minimum 120-month sentence on drug offense, where said sentence was 142 months below low end of sentencing guideline range. Dist. Ct. gave only brief and inconsistent statements to explain instant departure from sentencing guidelines, and record showed that there was relatively little in defendant’s background to support instant departure.