Opinion for the Court filed PER CURIAM.
PER CURIAM:
This appeal concerns the appropriate method for departure from the Sentencing Guidelines when the district court determines that a defendant's criminal history score inadequately accounts for the gravity of his past conduct. We hold, in keeping with precedent prevailing in other circuits, that the sentencing judge must consider upward adjustment to a higher criminal history category before imposing a sentence...
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