United States Second Circuit

A court may not make downward departure below the lower limit of the applicable Sentencing Guidelines range for Criminal History Category I on the basis of the minor nature of a defendant's criminal history.

Appellate Information

• Argued 08/30/2001
• Decided 09/10/2001
• Published 09/10/2001

Judges

• PER CURIAM., Before CABRANES, STRAUB, and KATZMANN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Andrew G. Patel, New York, NY, for Defendant-Appellant., Miriam H. Baer, Assistant United States Attorney (Baruch Weiss, Assistant United States Attorney, of counsel;  Mary Jo White, United States Attorney, on the brief), United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York, New York, NY, for Appellee.