Legal Opinion
Roberts v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided April 15, 1980No. 78-1793PublishedCited by 672 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Powell
The question is whether the District Court properly considered, as one factor in imposing sentence, the petitioner’s refusal to cooperate with officials investigating a criminal conspiracy in which he was a confessed participant.
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Petitioner Winfield Roberts accompanied Cecilia Payne to the office of the United States Attorney for the District of Columbia one day in June 1975. Government surveillance previously had revealed that a green Jaguar owned by Payne was used to transport heroin within the District. Payne told investigators that she occasionally lent the Jaguar to petitioner, who was…
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