United States v. Feng Li, AKA Li Feng Zhao Hui, AKA Hui Zhao, Ru Jie Lu, AKA Ru Lu Jie

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• rejecting an identical waiver argument on the ground that the defendant’s protestations adequately apprised the trial court of the issue
• vacating sentence where district court stated that defendant “doesn’t want to face the punishment for what she has done” and then precluded defendant from explaining why she did not know that the conduct leading to her conviction was unlawful
• noting intercircuit conflict regarding whether defendant should be held to have forfeited his right to allocution if he failed to request that opportunity, given that Rule 32(c)(3)(C) imposes an affirmative obligation on the sentencing court to invite allocution
• rejecting an identical waiver argument on the ground that the defendant' s protestations adequately apprised the trial court of the issue
• no constitutional right to allocution even when affirmative request for allocution is denied
• no constitutional right to allocution even when affirmative request for allocution is denied

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