Legal Opinion
United States v. Ramon Wilberto Abreu-Cabrera
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided August 23, 1995No. 1071, Docket 94-1429PublishedCited by 74 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CARDAMONE, Circuit Judge:
This appeal requires us to construe the meaning of Rule 35(c) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, which governs corrections of sentencing errors. That Rule provides: “The court, acting within 7 days after the imposition of sentence, may correct a sentence that was imposed as a result of arithmetical, technical, or other clear error.” The very language of the Rule, we think, makes clear that a sentencing court is not authorized to change its mind as the winds change, veering away in a trice from a sentence it has correctly imposed, simply because further…
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