It's all going to depend on the sentencing guidelines. In the Federal system it's all based on a point system. The only leeway a judge has is to sentence to the top of the guideline or the bottom (ie: 18(low end) to 27(high end) months. The amount of points he has sets the amount of time. If he "pled" he would receive a "downward departure", which means they would take points "off". For instance there would be -3 points for "acceptance of responsibility" and -3 more points for pleading under the auspice of "cooperation". But since he did not plea, he's already starting high, and based on the severity of the crime he's been convicted of it will add more points. Meaning how many points you receive for the crime, murder I believe is +33, drug trafficking is +20, white collar crimes ranger from +6 to +10, so it's all going to depend on where he falls in the points!

In a lot of Federal cases, you see people who plea get 12-18 months on a certain charge, but people who fight the same charges would get up to 5 years, again, losing the points for acceptance of responsibility and cooperation, and any other downward departure associated with a plea. My guess would be somewhere upwards of 36 months. Vick got 27 for dog fighting, Max is getting more than that!