Legal Opinion
United States v. Valdez-Aguirre
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided July 3, 2017No. 15-3275PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BACHARACH, Circuit Judge.
This appeal involves allocution. When a convicted defendant allocutes, he or she makes a statement in mitigation of the sentence to be imposed. Allocution, Black’s Law Dict. 91 (Bryan A. Garner ed., 10th ed. 2014) (second definition). 1 The right to make such a statement is guaranteed under the federal rules. Fed. R. Crim. P. 32(i)(4)(A)(ii). By definition, allocution is to take place before the sentence is imposed. Otherwise, the defendant would have little to gain from making a statement.
But federal trial courts frequently approach sentencing with at least some idea…
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