United States v. Escobar-Gonzalez

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• determining that habeas relief was warranted on a vindictive sentencing claim
• declining to review an Eighth Amendment claim where the sentence was within the range of years prescribed by New York law
• habeas granted, presumption of vindictiveness where trial court told petitioner he would be sentenced to statutory maximum sentence before being presented with state’s evidence, hearing any defense, or reviewing a presentence report
• “[T]he Court finds that the Pearce presumption is warranted where the trial court stated, pre-trial, in the context of plea negotiations, that she would impose the non- mandatory statutory maximum if the defendant went to trial, and then imposed that sentence after trial.”

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