U.S. v. Lawrence, No. 02-4886 (4th Cir.) (349 F.3d 724) (November 13, 2003) (Judge J. Harvie III Wilkinson)
As if the Guideline provisions dealing with “career offenders” were not already tough enough, we now have to deal with upward departures based on a sentencing court’s judgment that a defendant who does not meet the technical requirements for career offender status can still be sentenced as a “de facto” ...
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