United States v. Shillingstad

How courts have described this case

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• holding that prior assaults were admissible to prove intent in assault with a dangerous weapon prosecution, and to disprove accident theory
• finding no significant procedural error at sentencing where the district court “departed upward by only two criminal history categories and sufficiently explained that its decision was based on [the defendant’s] extensive criminal record”
• reviewing upward departure for abuse of discretion
• reviewing upward departure for abuse of discretion

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).