U.S. v. Jones, No. 97-2176 (8th Cir.) (160 F.3d 473) (November 17, 1998) (Judge Roger L. Wollman)
Loaded on Dec. 1, 1998
published in Punch and Jurists
December 21, 1998
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Prosecutorial Misconduct.
This case deals with disproportionate sentences that result from the plea bargaining process; but here the Eighth Circuit looked at the issues raised in a decidedly different manner than the First Circuit did in U.S. v. Rodriguez, Docket No. 97-2002 (1st Cir. 1998). Not only was the Court openly …
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