United States v. Eliseo Espinoza, Jr.

How courts have described this case

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

• “where a sentencing judge explicitly relies on certain information in assessing a sentence, fundamental fairness requires that a defendant be given at least some opportunity to rebut that information”
• defendant’s “bad record”; sentencing court may not rely on erroneous “factual assumption”
• an erroneous bad record was enough to warrant the correction of sentence

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).