United States v. James Alsante

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the sentencing hearing was “fundamentally fair” even though the defendant declined the court’s invitation to “make a statement in allocution”
• rejecting the argument that the defendant’s Fifth Amendment rights were violated where he could not fully allocute without discussing a pending case
• “[Defendant] no doubt felt pressure to rebut the government’s evidence so that he could reduce his sentence. That is the same pressure, however, felt by every defendant who must decide whether to testify or remain silent.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).