United States v. Marcus Jacobs

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• considering “departure” a “term of art under the Guidelines”, therefore applying its “well-settled meaning in the sentencing context” but where relevant provision of plea agreement referred to “an upward departure from the Sentencing Guidelines”
• describing a “departure” as a change in the Guidelines range that still results in a sentence “imposed under the framework set out in the Guidelines” and a “variance” as “a sentence that is outside the [G]uidelines framework” altogether
• explaining the difference between a variance and a departure

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).