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U.S. v. PICKERING

No. 96-5464.

178 F.3d 1168 (1999)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Shawn PICKERING, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

June 25, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William A. Keefer, U.S. Atty., Harriet R. Galvin, Adalberto Jordan, Dawn Bowen, Asst. U.S. Attys., Miami, FL, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Luis I. Guerra, Helen C. Trainor, Asst. Fed. Pub. Defenders, Miami, FL, for Defendant-Appellee.

Before TJOFLAT, BARKETT and MARCUS, Circuit Judges.

TJOFLAT, Circuit Judge:

The Government appeals the district court's decision to depart downward from the applicable sentence range under the Sentencing Guidelines by sentencing the defendant to zero months imprisonment for three counts of armed bank robbery. Because we find that this departure was an abuse of discretion, we vacate the defendant's sentences for those offenses and remand this case to the district court for...

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