MEMORANDUM
DALZELL, District Judge.
Believing, as we do, that the Supreme Court's decision less than three weeks ago in Blakely v. Washington, ___ U.S. ___, 124 S.Ct. 2531, ___ U.S. ___ (2004), fundamentally changes the federal sentencing landscape, we write at some length to explain how we arrived at the sentence of 188 months that we imposed on this defendant this day.
Background
On the morning he was to begin his...
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