United States v. Willis Ray Cash

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• holding that a defendant may be sentenced as a de facto career offender based on an offense that would otherwise be insuf- ficient to qualify as a predicate offense for career offender purposes under USSG § 4B1.1
• remarking that although this language from Rusher is dicta, \it identifies the proper approach to be taken.\
• setting forth specific procedures district court should follow when it determines category VI inadequately reflects defendant's criminal history
• prescribing analysis for § 4A1.3 departures based on inade- quacy of Criminal History Category VI
• prescribing analysis for S 4A1.3 departures based on inadequacy of Criminal History Category VI
• departing above Category VI by moving vertically to successively higher offense levels will produce roughly same 10-15% increase in guideline range -2- as extrapolating horizontally by extending criminal history categories

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