United States Fourth Circuit

Upon the government's motion for a downward departure pursuant to 18 U.S.C. section 3553(e), a district court can impose a sentence below the Guideline range even though the defendant is subject to a statutory minimum sentence that exceeds the Guideline range.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/29/2004
• Published 12/29/2004

Judges

• Before WILKINSON and TRAXLER, Circuit Judges, and HAMILTON, Senior Circuit Judge.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:Winston David Holliday, Jr., Office of the United States Attorney, Columbia, South Carolina, for Appellant.  Louis H. Lang, Callison, Tighe & Robinson, Columbia, South Carolina, for Appellee. ON BRIEF:  J. Strom Thurmond, Jr., United States Attorney, Jane B. Taylor, Assistant United States Attorney, Columbia, South Carolina, for Appellant.