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Berthoff v. U.S., No. 99-1276 (1st Cir.) (308 F.3d 124) (October 21, 2002) (Judge Norman H. Stahl)

Loaded on Nov. 1, 2002 published in Punch and Jurists November 18, 2002
Filed under: Punch And Jurists, Plea Bargaining.

Here the Court rejected, on procedural grounds, District Judge Young’s invitation to consider whether the practice of “fact bargaining” at sentencing had “unduly and unconstitutionally” burdened the defendant’s Sixth Amendment right to trial by jury.

In this decision (Berthoff II), the First Circuit gingerly squirmed through the minefield laid by ...

 

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