Opinion ID: 546287
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Heading: General principle: Guideline Sec. 4A1.3

Text: 12 Guideline Sec. 4A1.3 allows the district court to depart from the sentence [i]f reliable information indicates that the criminal history category does not adequately reflect the seriousness of the defendant's past criminal conduct.... Some types of information, such as arrest records, may not be considered in departing upward. Beyond what may not be considered, the guidelines provide only partial guidance by setting forth a nonexclusive list of what might be reliable information. The guidelines direct that, after reviewing the evidence of a defendant's past criminality and propensity for future crime, the district court may conclude that the defendant's criminal history was significantly more serious than that of most defendants in the same criminal history category, and therefore consider an upward departure from the guidelines. Guideline Sec. 4A1.3.