CASANUEVA, Judge.
After he violated his probation, David Teal received a downward departure sentence of eighteen months' prison instead of the guidelines' recommendation of forty months to ten years. At the conclusion of a hearing at which the prosecutor and defense attorney discussed Mr. Teal's health problems, the court offered and Mr. Teal accepted the mitigated sentence. Upon taking the plea, however, the court stated simply that it had elected to "depart from...
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