Legal Opinion
Pepper v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided March 2, 2011No. 09-6822PublishedCited by 605 opinions
1Opinion of the Court 1
OPINION OF THE COURT
[562 U.S. 480]
2Opinion of the Court · SotomayorJustice Sotomayor
This Court has long recognized that sentencing judges “exercise a wide discretion” in the types of evidence they may consider when imposing sentence and that “ [h] ighly relevant—if not essential—to [the] selection of an appropriate sentence is the possession of the fullest information possible concerning the defendant’s life and characteristics.” Williams v. New York, 337 U.S. 241, 246-247, 69 S. Ct. 1079, 93 L. Ed. 1337 (1949). Congress codified this principle at 18 U.S.C. § 3661, which provides that “[n]o limitation shall be placed on the information” a…
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- Williams v. New YorkSupreme Court of the United States · 1949
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