United States v. Kevin Ashley

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that upward departure was not unreasonable where “the court noted that while many of them were minor offenses, several others involved physical conflicts with arresting officers or other assaults with in- tent to inflict bodily injury”
• Guidelines authorize a departure where a defendant’s criminal history category significantly under-represents- the seriousness of the defendant’s criminal history or the likelihood that he will commit further crimes
• “The defendant need not have been armed in order for his conduct to have posed such a risk; the lack of weapon does not given an arrestee carte blanche to commit mayhem . . . .”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).