Legal Opinion
United States v. Gonzalez-Rodriguez
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided January 23, 2015No. 13-1243PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LYNCH, Chief Judge.
This case is a cautionary tale for criminal defense counsel as to the need to observe the time limits for taking appeals set forth in the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure and the restrictions on reconsideration of sentence#'-set forth in the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, Two basic lessons emerge from our consideration of the interplay between the two sets of rules. First, self-styled “motions for reconsideration of sentence,” unmoored in the rules, do not extend the time for an appeal. The era when this court accepted such an approach in United States v. Morillo,…
2Cases cited17 opinions
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- United States v. HealySupreme Court of the United States · 1964
- United States v. IbarraSupreme Court of the United States · 1991
- United States v. MorilloCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1993
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