Legal Opinion
United States v. Saldana
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided April 3, 1997No. 96-1371PublishedCited by 57 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BOUDIN, Circuit Judge.
Modesto Saldana appeals to contest his prison sentence. He argues that delay in prosecuting him caused prejudice that should have been offset by a downward departure. The government, as usual, says that a refusal to depart is not reviewable and, in any event, was not error. The merits of the case are straightforward; what is more difficult is to bring some order to a recurring, inherently confusing issue created by an overlap between the question of our authority to review and the merits of the case.
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Saldana, a citizen of the Dominican Republic, was convicted in January…
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