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· 3/9/1990

United States v. Antonio Nonato Evidente

Citations

  • 894 F.2d 1000

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that the district court’s refusal to depart downward on the basis of the defendant’s psychological problems and diminished capacity was not reviewable on appeal
  • appellate jurisdiction is conferred by both sections of the statute
  • “The question of whether a defendant has accepted responsibility is a factual one, depending largely on credibility assessments by the sentencing judge, who can far better evaluate the defendant’s acceptance of responsibility than can a reviewing court.”
  • issued contemporaneously with our opinion in the present case

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Judges: Arnold, Bowman, Gibson, John

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