· 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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