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Tenth Circuit affirms (way-below-guideline) probation sentence for sympathetic drug mule

By Douglas A. Berman

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A panel of the Tenth Circuit today in US v. Sayad, No. 08-1366 (10th Cir. Dec. 23, 2009) (available here), affirms a sentence of probation for five years for a first-offender drug mule over the government's complaints of procedural and substantive unreasonableness.  The ruling in Sayad does not really break any significant new jurisprudential ground, but I always think it is notable when a below-guideline sentence of only probation is affirmed over a government appeal.

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on December 22, 2009 (boomark / email).

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