SMITH

v.

QUARLES, WARDEN

Citator

Cited By

• United States v. Lambert, 984 F.2d 658 (5th Cir. 1993)
  …2d 513 (5th Cir.1989). Inconsistent decisions in United States v. Harvey, 897 F. 2d 1300, 1306 (5th Cir.), cert. denied, 498 U.S. 1003, 111 S.Ct. 568, 112 L.Ed.2d 574 (1990), and United States v. Geiger, 891 F. 2d 512 (5th Cir.1989), cert. denied, 494 U.S. 1087, 110 S.Ct. 1825, 108 L.Ed.2d 954 (1990), are overruled. Under the Lopez approach, as explained herein, the district court’s sentence passes muster. I. BACKGROUND Appellant Lambert pled guilty in April, 1991 to escaping from a federal halfway house…
• United States v. Carpenter, 963 F.2d 736 (5th Cir. 1992)
  …minimum 180 month sentence required by § 924(e) was reasonable); United States v. Geiger, 891 F. 2d 512, 513-14 (5th Cir.1989) (upholding a 120 month sentence even though [*746] guidelines recommended a maximum sentence of 27 months), cert. denied, 494 U.S. 1087, 110 S.Ct. 1825, 108 L.Ed.2d 954 (1990); accord United States v. Briggman, 931 F. 2d 705, 710 (11th Cir.), cert. denied, — U.S. —, 112 S.Ct. 370, 116 L.Ed.2d 322 (1991) (upward departure of fifteen years from statutory minimum sentence of fifteen ye…
• United States v. Lara, 975 F.2d 1120 (5th Cir. 1992)
  …ual conduct. . In Roberson, we upheld a sentence more than three times the guideline maximum. Departures of even greater multiples have been upheld as well. See, e.g., United States v. Geiger, 891 F. 2d 512 (5th Cir.1989) (4‘A times), cert. denied, 494 U.S. 1087, 110 S.Ct. 1825, 108 L.Ed.2d 954 (1990); United States v. Juarez-Ortega, 866 F. 2d 747 (5th Cir.1989) (per curiam) (more than 4 times); United States v. Guerrero, 863 F. 2d 245 (2d Cir.1988) (more than 5 times). We also note the multiple and indepen…