United States of America, Cross-Appellant v. Jeffery Jackson, Cross-Appellee

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• finding that “the fifth amendment was not implicated” by custodial statements made to probation officer, because a probation officer is not someone who “acts on behalf of the prosecution”
• finding that Fifth Amendment is not implicated by federal probation officer
• holding no Sixth Amendment right to counsel at presentence interview
• reversing the exclusion of evidence that defendant refused to provide a handwriting exemplar and finding the evidence highly probative because “there appears to be no alternative means of proof with regard to an essential element of the government’s case.”
• “A federal probation officer is an extension of the court and not an agent of the government.”
• the court also held that the Sixth Amendment right to assistance of counsel likewise did not extend to the defendant's presentence interview by his probation officer

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