U.S. v. Purham

Dist. Ct. did not err in sentencing defendant to 324-month term of incarceration on distribution of crack cocaine charge, even though defendant argued that said sentence was unreasonable. Instant sentence could not be viewed as unreasonable, where it was 36 months below relevant guideline range, and Dist. Ct. could properly base sentence on 280 gram drug quantity calculation, where defendant had pleaded guilty to distributing that amount. Remand, though, was required, where Dist. Ct. imposed gang-association and community service conditions of supervised release, where: (1) Dist. Ct. failed to set limit on amount of community service that defendant could be required to perform; and (2) Dist. Ct. did not clarify term “association” so as to rule out as violation any accidental or chance meeting with street-gang member.