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This document summarizes a court case regarding a downward departure in sentencing granted by a district court to allow the defendant and his wife, who have undertaken fertility treatments, to conceive a child during her remaining childbearing years. The appellate court vacated the sentence, finding that unlike prior cases where downward departures were granted for extraordinary family circumstances, the intended beneficiary of the reduced sentence in this case was chiefly the defendant, not dependents. The

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