People v. Youngbey

How courts have described this case

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• holding that this court “cannot say that a trial judge will be sufficiently apprised of the defendant’s criminal record in the absence of the mandatory presentence investigation and report”
• finding that a presentence report is for the “enlightenment of the court,” as well as for the benefit of the defendant
• observing that the purpose of a PSI is to collect all the necessary information for the trial court before sentence is imposed
• defendant in criminal case could no longer waive presentence report after legislature deleted language from statute giving him right to do so
• section’s requirements cannot be waived except in accordance with statute’s own exception, i.e., the parties have agreed to the imposition of a specific sentence
• presentence report is “for the enlightenment of the court” and is “not a personal right of the defendant” and thus “cannot be waived”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).