upward departure

In the federal sentencing guidelines, a court’s imposition of a sentence harsher than the standard guidelines propose, as when the court concludes that a criminal’s history did not take into account additional offenses committed while the prisoner was out on bail. [Cases: Sentencing and Punishment 814. C.J.S. Criminal Law §§ 1479, 1526.]

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