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Ninth Circuit Vacates a Sentence Imposed for Violation of Supervised Release Because the District Court Failed to Disclose to the Defendant the Probation Officer’s Confidential Sentencing Recommendations
Loaded on April 12, 2019
published in Criminal Legal News
May, 2019, page 28
Filed under:
Release and Reentry,
Sentencing,
Post-release, ex-offender, re-entry.
Location:
United States of America.
In Gray, the Ninth Circuit held that Fed.R.Crim.P. 32 requires a sentencing court to disclose to a defendant all factual evidence on which it relies at sentencing, including “factual information underlying a probation officer’s confidential sentencing recommendation” - even in cases involving sentencing for revocation of supervised release where, ...
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