Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit January 30, 1997, 96-50127 (UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Charles Kevin GREEN, Defendant-Appellee)

MICHAEL DALY HAWKINS, Circuit Judge:

We consider here an issue of first impression in this Circuit: whether the government, as we have previously held with respect to defendants, is entitled to reasonable notice of a sentencing court’s intention to make a departure (here, a sizeable one) on a ground

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not identified in the presentenee report (“PSR”).