| 1987 - 634 páginas
...described." The amendment authorizes the court to depart from the guidelines if there exists such a circumstance "of a kind or to a degree" not adequately taken into consideration by the Commission. I understand this amendment merely to clarify the intent behind the past standard for sentencing... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Narcotics Abuse and Control - 1981 - 124 páginas
...provided only that the judge finds that "an aggravating or mitigating circumstance exists that was not adequately taken into consideration by the Sentencing Commission in formulating the guidelines." This is hardly any change from the broad discretion presently exercised by district judges... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1986 - 1268 páginas
...guidelines only if it is found that an aggravating or mitigating circumstance exists that that was not adequately taken into consideration by the Sentencing Commission in formulating the guidelines. I remain somewhat uncomfortable that important information that concerns the crime or that... | |
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