Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States

McDonald v. Piedmont Aviation, Inc.

502 U.S. 969

Type
Opinion
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Jurisdiction
Federal
Date
1991-11-18
Topic
general

How later courts describe this case

  • rejecting as a ground for departure “the district court’s stated desire, in the interests of fairness, to equalize the sentences of two similarly situated codefendants.”
  • inequality in sentencing outcome for similarly situated co-defendant, without more, does not justify a departure from a properly calculated Guidelines range

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C. A. 2d Cir. Certiorari denied.