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· 12/15/1989

United States v. Terryl L. Williams

Citations

  • 891 F.2d 962
  • 1989 U.S. App. LEXIS 19178
  • 1989 WL 150487

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • “Draining the impermissible ingredients from the stew leaves precious little in the departure pot.”
  • \Draining the impermissible ingredients from the stew leaves precious little in the departure pot.\
  • vacating downward departure because, inter alia, defendant’s rehabilitative efforts were not meaningfully atypical
  • vacating sentence which included downward departure based in part on defendant’s cocaine addiction
  • discussing when idiosyncratic circumstances rise to a level sufficient to allow departure
  • district court erred, as a matter of law, by reducing sentence of defendant bank robber who had not carried a gun

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Judges: Selya, Bownes, Van Graafeiland Selya

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