United States v. Joseph J. Schulte

How courts have described this case

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• stating that the power to depart based on an unmentioned factor is “quite limited”
• stating that the power to depart based on an unmentioned factor is \quite limited\
• “[A] disparity between federal and state sentences does not take a case out of the heartland of cases contemplated by the Sentencing Commission.”
• “If courts were to depart from the sentences mandated by the Guidelines in deference to numerous and varying standards in the state systems, they would eviscerate the uniformity in federal sentencing that is the raison d’etre of the Sentencing Reform Act of 1984.”
• “If courts were to depart from the sentences mandated by the Guidelines in deference to numerous and varying stan- dards in the state systems, they would eviscerate the uniformity in federal sentencing that is the raison d’etre of the Sentencing Reform Act of 1984.”
• “[w]e cannot depart down- ward”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).