United States v. Sharon Ann Burke

How courts have described this case

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• holding that absent statutory exceptions “defendants may not be sentenced, by means of a downward departure, to a term of imprisonment or other punishment below the [mandatory] minimum imposed by the statute under which they were convicted”
• “All courts addressing whether this represents the exclusive route to depart below statutory mínimums have concluded that it is.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).