U.S. v. Reyna, No. 01-41164 (5th Cir.) (358 F.3d 344) (January 26, 2004) (Judge W. Eugene Davis)
Here, abrogating prior precedent, the en banc court held that the failure to give the defendant his Rule 32 right of allocution to speak in mitigation of his sentence, no longer requires automatic reversal, but rather is subject to plain error review.
While on supervised release for a prior offense, ...
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