United States v. Jaime L. Ferra

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• recommending that a sentencing court determine the amount of a departure by analogy to factors that “the Commission considered”
• \Truth usually promotes the operation of the judicial system. Jurors need not be left to wonder about the allocation of tasks between trial and appellate courts.\
• “The Commission prescribes two-level adjustments for relatively serious offense characteristics, and departures of more than two levels should be explained with a care commensurate with their exceptional quality.”
• applying Gardner principles to departure based on aggravating circumstances

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).