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U.S. v. Lipman, No. 97-50006 (9th Cir.) (133 F.3d 726) (January 8, 1998) (Judge Harry Pregerson)

This case is noted because it recognizes still another novel ground for a downward departure under the Guidelines - one which the Court called a person’s “cultural assimilation” into American society. The Ninth Circuit described the basis for such a departure as “akin to the factor of ‘family and community ...

 

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