U.S. v. Anderson, No. 95-3109 (D.C. Cir.) (82 F.3d 436) (April 16, 1996) (Judge Stephen F. Williams)
The principal holding of this case is that even though the Sentencing Commission itself has "made . . . an extraordinary mea culpa acknowledging the enormous unfairness of one of its guidelines" (id. at 450), that is not a sufficient reason to justify a downward departure under the Guidelines. The ...
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