United States v. John Moscahlaidis

How courts have described this case

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• holding that if the government breaches the plea agreement, the District Court can either order specific performance of the agreement or allow withdrawal of the plea
• recognizing that Santobello requires a prosecutor to keep his promises
• recognizing that Santobello requires a prosecutor to keep his promises
• reviewing a district court's determination that the government did not breach a plea agreement
• reviewing challenge to prosecution’s statements extremely derogatory of the defendant and specifically intended to influence a harsher sentence, where prosecutor had agreed “not take a position relative to whether or not a custodial sentence shall be imposed ... .”
• “In this circuit, ‘the government must adhere strictly to the terms of the bargain it strikes with defendants.’ ”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).