United States v. James Bass, Jr.

How courts have described this case

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

• evidence of defendant’s “high life style” while unemployed held impermissible because jury might infer previous criminal activity
• “In monitoring the sentencing process, appellate courts have shown particular concern over sentences imposed on the basis of information which is materially false.”
• “[T]his appellant did not dispute the truthfulness of the allegations at sentencing. . . . We see no reason to bar sentencing judges from considering relevant information whose accuracy is not disputed.”
• “If a denial [by a defendant] were to be made, the ... court might request the Government to submit some verification ... [or] find existing factual support or indicia of reliability for the allegations ...”
• absence of denial itself provides important indicium of reliability

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).