Legal Opinion
United States v. Almonte-Nunez
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided November 14, 2014No. 13-1896PublishedCited by 69 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
When the government enters into a plea agreement with a criminal defendant, it acquires a duty to carry out the obligations it has undertaken in both letter and spirit. This duty devolves upon the government’s attorneys. But those attorneys, as officers of the court, remain bound by their corollary duty to provide full and accurate information about the offense and the offender to the sentencing court. As this case illustrates, these dual obligations sometimes require prosecutors to walk a fine line.
I. BACKGROUND
We draw the facts from the plea agreement, the…
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