Nobody wants to spend any more time in federal prison than they absolutely have to. And that’s why U.S. Sentencing Guideline challenges are by far the most common criminal pleading filed in any federal appellate court.

Thousands of appellate sentencing challenges are filed every year. And the odds of convincing the U.S. Supreme Court to hear any one of them in order to correct a lower court decision are impossibly slim.

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