First Circuit Holds Government Breached Plea Agreement by Implicitly Arguing for Upward Variant Sentence by Including Pictures and Video of Defendant That Allegedly Depict His Criminal Tendencies in Sentencing Memo by Sam Rutherford by Sam Rutherford The U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit held that the Government implicitly …

First Circuit: Plain Error Where District Court Based Upward Variant From Sentencing Guidelines Range on New Information Not Already in the Record at the Time of Sentencing by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney The U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit found plain error where the U.S. District Court …