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· 6/1/2005

United States v. Contreras-Martinez

Citations

  • 409 F.3d 1236
  • 2005 U.S. App. LEXIS 9986
  • 2005 WL 1283782

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • holding district court reasonably applied the advisory “Chapter 7 policy statement exactly as written” and was “well within its discretion” to impose a consecutive revocation sentence
  • noting “[t]he violation of a condition of supervised release is a breach of trust”
  • “[T]he Chapter 7 provisions dealing with violations of supervised release . . . merely constitute ‘advisory’ policy statements.”
  • “The violation of a condition of supervised release is a breach of trust and, while the 20 sentencing court at revocation takes into account the seriousness of the underlying crime, it is primarily the breach of trust that is sanctioned.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Seymour, Baldock, Briscoe

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