Topic: may impose a more severe or more lenient sentence · Go Syfert
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3 canonical passages across 2 cases, quoted by 23 opinions in total. These passages cluster together because the same opinions keep quoting them side by side: they state parts of one doctrine. The anchor passage is from United States v. Charles Crawford, Jr..

#Case FlagCanonical passage Citers
1 United States v. Charles Crawford, Jr. Anchor
ca11 · 2005
green “may impose a more severe or more lenient sentence” 15
2 United States v. Sanchez
ca11 · 1998
green “the fact that the government's fictitious reverse sting operation involved a large quantity of drugs does not amount to the type of manipulative governmental conduct warranting a downward departure in sentencing” 4

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