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No Sentencing Guidelines Departure for Heart Transplant

An "extraordinary physical impairment" may justify a downward departure
under the federal sentencing guidelines, but the district court declined to
grant one based on this criminal defendant's severe cardiac problem and the
fact that the Bureau of Prisons does not provide organ transplants. (The
court thought he would probably get ...

 

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