Legal Opinion
United States v. Poland
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided April 2, 2009No. 08-1203PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BOUDIN, Circuit Judge.
The issue the parties have framed on this appeal is whether, where the district court adjusts a prior sentence to account for post-sentence cooperation by the defendant, the adjustment may reflect factors other than that cooperation. We sustain the district court’s disposition of this case but on a narrower ground, deferring until necessary the larger issue — which may arise only rarely and implicates a difficult and delicate issue of statutory construction.
The defendant, Jonathan Poland, was eighteen years and three months old when he and his seventeen-year old cousin…
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