United States v. Charles Gordon Long

Invoking Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 36 and the inherent authority of the federal district courts, federal inmate Charles Long moved — some three years after he was sentenced for bank robbery upon his guilty plea — for modification or return of his abridged pre-plea presen-tence report (PSR). Long argued that the document was not really a PSR, and that it contained inaccurate and scandalous information which was being used against him in federal prison. The district court 1 denied the motion, and he appeals. After careful review, and for the reasons explained by the district court, we…