Vickiel Vincent Vaughn v. United States

When determining whether to impose supervised release and the length of that term, a district court may not consider the retributive factors identified in 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a)(2)(A) and Esteras v. United States, 145 S.Ct. 2031 (2025). The question presented is as follows: Whether a district court actually relies on § 3553(a)(2)(A), at least by unmistakable implication, when it expressly invokes those factors in an undifferentiated explanation immediately before imposing imprisonment and supervised release, without limiting the factors to imprisonment?