United States v. Durham

HOLTZOFF, District Judge.

The defendant moves for an opportunity to inspect the Probation Officer’s report of the presentence investigation. This motion is denied.

It is not the practice to permit the defendant or his counsel or any one else to inspect reports of presentence investigations. Such reports are treated as confidential documents. They are not public records. The reason is obvious. Such reports, in order to be helpful to the Court, must of necessity contain a considerable amount of information that may be obtained, on occasion, in confidence. So, too, the Probation Officer must feel…