Commonwealth v. Walker, H.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “‘The decision as to whether and to what extent departure is warranted rests with the sentencing court on a case-specific basis.’ ”
• “ ‘The decision as to whether and to what extent departure is warranted rests with the sentencing court on a case-specific basis.’ ”
• “The sentencing court may depart downward if the court finds that there exists a mitigating circumstance of a kind or degree not adequately taken into consideration in formulating the guidelines.”
• the goal of the Sentencing Guidelines is uniformity

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).