United States v. Spedden

How courts have described this case

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• noting that although family ties and responsibilities are normally not relevant in determining whether a sentence should be outside the applicable guideline range, a district court may depart upon a finding that a defendant’s family ties are “extraordinary”
• noting that although family ties and responsibilities are not ordinarily relevant in determining whether a sentence should be outside the applicable guideline range, a district court may depart upon a finding that a defendants’ family ties are “extraordinary”
• defendant was only one who could care for dying wife and seriously ill child

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).