Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit December 13, 2006, 06-2156 (United States v. Jess A. Johnson)

POSNER, Circuit Judge.

Under the federal sentencing regime created by the

Booker

decision, the sentencing judge is first to compute and consider the guidelines range for the defendant’s offense and then to select and impose a sentence' — which can be inside or outside that range (provided of course that it is within the

statutory

sentencing range) — guided by the sentencing factors in 18 U.S.C.