United States v. John Edward Stevens

How courts have described this case

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• recounting that the “illegal manner” language was added to Rule 35 to “change the result in [Hill, 368 U.S. at 430, 82 S.Ct. 468] where the then Rule 35 was held to be inapplicable to correct a sentence imposed without granting the defendant the right of allocution”
• recounting that the “illegal manner” language was added to Rule 35 to “change the result in [Hill, 368 U.S. at 430] where the then Rule 35 was held to be inap- plicable to correct a sentence imposed without granting the defendant the right of allocution”
• where judge inadvertently imposed a two year sentence instead of the ten year sentence called for in the plea agreement, the same was held to be illegally imposed and correctable.

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