United States v. Cynthia J. Dewitt

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• concluding that plea agreement precluded prosecutor from introducing evidence of increased drug quantity absent direction from the district court to do so
• concluding that plea agreement precluded prosecutor from introducing evidence of increased drug quantity absent direction from the district court to do so
• holding government breached plea agreement when it stipulated to a certain drug quantity but presented evidence of a higher quantity at sentencing
• stating \our precedent dictates that we vacate the judgment and remand to the district court for resentencing before a different judge\
• stating “the district court correctly observed that it was not bound by the drug quantity or base offense level agreed to by the parties”
• “[T]he sentencing guidelines require the district court independently to evaluate the evidence when imposing a sentence.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).