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Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Rhode
Island
Leo Wold and Goldenberg & Muri on brief for appellant.
Edwin J. Gale, United States Attorney, and Zechariah Chafee, Assistant
United States Attorney, on brief for appellee.
D.R.I.
DISMISSED
Before Breyer, Chief Judge, Torruella and Selya, Circuit Judges.
Per Curiam.
of jurisdiction. See United States v. Romolo, 937 F.2d 20, 22 (1st Cir. 1991) (a
district court's refusal to depart is not appealable unless based on the court's
mistaken view that it lacked the legal authority to consider a departure).
2
Our review of the sentencing transcript shows that the court believed that it had
authority to depart downward in unusual cases falling outside the heartland of
the sentencing guidelines, but that the court did not believe that Alabi's case
was an unusual one. In doing so, the court evaluated the degree to which factors
such as Alabi's education, employment record, and family ties and
responsibilities deviated from the ordinary, and its analysis tracked the
discussion and analysis in Rivera, supra. See id. at 948 (factors such as
education, employment record, and family ties and responsibilities can remove
a case from the heartland and justify downward departure, but only if they are
present "in a manner that is unusual or special, rather than 'ordinary.' ").
Appeal dismissed.