United States v. Aceves-Lara

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• noting that, although it is permissible to charge an otherwise deserved sentence when the defendant refuses to cooperate, it is altogether a different matter when an otherwise inappropriate and unjust sentence is threatened simply to coerce cooperation
• \[Mandatory Minimums] strip criminal defendants of the due process rights we consider fundamental to our justice system.\
• \The only reason for the five-year sentence imposed on Dossie is that the law invoked by the prosecutor required it.\

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