U.S. v. Smith, No. 03-10548 (9th Cir.) (424 F.3d 992) (September 13, 2005) (Judge Michael Daly Hawkins)
Rule 32(i)(4)(A)(ii) of the Fed.R.Crim.P. states that, before imposing sentence, the district court must address the defendant personally “in order to permit the defendant to speak or present any information to mitigate the sentence.” Not only will such sentence allocutions rarely - if ever - affect the sentence, this case ...
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