The following excerpt is from United States v. Wang, 944 F.3d 1081 (9th Cir. 2019):
The Guidelines are the "starting point and the initial benchmark for the sentencing process." United States v. Bernardo , 818 F.3d 983, 985 (9th Cir. 2016) (citations and internal quotation marks omitted). For this reason, "[t]he district court must correctly calculate the recommended Guidelines sentence[.]" United States v. Hymas , 780 F.3d 1285, 1292 (9th Cir. 2015) (citation omitted).
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