Pope v. State

How courts have described this case

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• holding that where trial court fails to provide written reasons for departure, trial court must impose a guidelines sentence on remand
• reversing the defendant’s departure sentence due to the trial court’s failure to provide reasons for departure and remanding “for resentencing within the guidelines, with no possibility of departure therefrom”
• when an appellate court reverses a departure sentence for lack of written reasons, it must remand for resentencing with no possibility of departure from the guidelines
• written reasons required for departure from sentencing guidelines cannot be supplied after reversal

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