The following excerpt is from United States v. Goris, 17-0163 (2nd Cir. 2018):
We review for substantive reasonableness under "a particularly deferential form of [the] abuse-of-discretion [standard]." United States v. Cavera, 550 F.3d 180, 188 n.5 (2d Cir. 2008) (en banc). We will set aside the district court's decision "only in [an] exceptional case[] where [that] decision 'cannot be located within the range of permissible
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