Legal Opinion
United States v. Pickering
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided June 25, 1999No. 96-5464PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TJOFLAT, Circuit Judge:
The Government appeals the district court’s decision to depart downward from the applicable sentence range under the Sentencing Guidelines by sentencing the defendant to zero months imprisonment for three counts of armed bank robbery. Because we find that this departure was an abuse of discretion, we vacate the defendant’s sentences for those offenses and remand this case to the district court for further proceedings consistent with this opinion.
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The defendant, Shawn Pickering, committed four armed bank robberies between August 30 and November 22, 1994. On May 1, 1995,…
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