downward departure

In the federal sentencing guidelines, a court’s imposition of a sentence more lenient than the standard guidelines propose, as when the court concludes that a criminal’s history is less serious than it appears. [Cases: Sentencing and Punishment 850. C.J.S. Criminal Law § 1479.]

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