U.S. v. Roe, No. 91-30085 (9th Cir.) (976 F.2d 1216) (October 6, 1992) (Judge David R. Thompson)
The Ninth Circuit held that district court "clearly erred in finding that the tragic circumstances of [defendant's] abusive upbringing were not extraordinary," where the defendant "lived with her drug-addicted mother and her mother's boyfriend, who was a narcotics dealer," for much of her childhood; where the mother's boyfriend "routinely raped …
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