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· 1/31/1972

United States v. George E. Evans

Citations

  • 459 F.2d 1134
  • 148 U.S. App. D.C. 110
  • 1972 U.S. App. LEXIS 11575

How courts have described this case

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  • “It is well settled that a sentence in all respects legal cannot be increased after the defendant has begun serving it . . . . A sentence plainly illegal, however . . . may be corrected even after the defendant has begun serving it.”

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Judges: McGowan, Leventhal, MacKinnon

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