Legal Opinion

United States v. John Frank Rodgers

Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

Decided November 27, 1996No. 286, Docket 96-1053PublishedCited by 198 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

WALKER, Circuit Judge:

Defendant John Frank Rodgers claims that the government breached its plea agreement to recommend a downward departure from the guideline range in exchange for Rodgers’s assistance in government investigations when (i) an FBI agent encouraged victims of Rodgers’s fraud to submit letters to the sentencing court; (ii) the agent misinformed a bankruptcy trustee’s attorney, who then informed the sentencing court, of the amount of corporate funds missing due to the fraud and of the results of Rodgers’s polygraph examination; and (iii) the government complied with a court order…

2Cases cited17 opinions

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  4. Leonhard v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1980
  5. United States v. SalernoCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1989

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3Cited by198 opinions

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