People v. Pearsall

How courts have described this case

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• sentencing court relied on damaging hearsay-on-hearsay allegations where presentence report was favorable and maximum sentence was imposed
• sentencing court relied on damaging hearsay-on-hearsay allegations where presentence report was favorable and maximum sentence was imposed
• requiring that charged conduct “was intended to impede witness”
• court must consider whether some hearsay is “so unreliable it could not be considered in imposing sentence”
• court must consider whether some hearsay is \so unreliable it could not be considered in imposing sentence\
• failure to object to errors in presentence report despite opportunity to do so held to be plain error in light of potential prejudice to defendant, notwithstanding general rule of enforcing such waivers

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).