United States v. Julio Rivera

How courts have described this case

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• instructing that \[t]he government should make it absolutely clear in a plea agreement that a breach by the defendant releases the government from its obligation to recommend leniency but does not release the defendant from the plea of guilty\
• “[T]he 9 reasonable meaning of the plea agreement is that Rivera’s failure to appear for sentencing . . . would release the government from its obligations to recommend a sentence reduction.”
• “We look to ‘what the parties to this plea agreement reasonably understood to be the terms of the agreement.’ ” (quoting Paradiso v. United States, 689 F.2d 28, 31 (2d Cir. 1982) (per curiam))
• “[B]ecause [the defendant] failed to live up to his obligation [under the plea agreement], the government was not required to recommend a sentence reduction. Therefore, the government did not breach the agreement by declining to make such a recommendation.”

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Cited by

14 cases in this archive cite this case.

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  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2003-10-30· cited 127×
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  Second Circuit· 1995-01-30· cited 35×
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  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2004-04-06· cited 31×
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  Seventh Circuit· 2013-06-10· cited 29×
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  Ninth Circuit· 1996-04-03· cited 26×
• United States v. Alonzo T. Gregory
  Second Circuit· 2001-04-02· cited 25×
• United States v. Gardner
  First Circuit· 2021-07-20· cited 11×
• O'Neil v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 2003-10-07· cited 9×
• United States v. Felix Delacruz
  Seventh Circuit· 1998-05-15· cited 8×
• United States v. Michelle L. Ashurst
  Seventh Circuit· 1996-09-30· cited 4×
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  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2021-05-14
• State of Iowa v. Sarah Elizabeth Gruel
  Court of Appeals of Iowa· 2021-08-04
• Morales v. New York
  S.D. New York· 1995-12-28
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Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• United States v. Mohammad Wazir Khan
  Second Circuit· 1990-12-10· cited 95×
• Michael Paradiso v. United States
  Second Circuit· 1982-09-21· cited 60×
• Innes v. Dalsheim
  Second Circuit· 1988-12-29· cited 47×
• United States v. Lee Alexander and Kenyon Bajus, Lee Alexander
  Second Circuit· 1989-02-21· cited 36×
• United States v. Louis A. Ferrara
  Second Circuit· 1992-01-16· cited 26×

Other cases named United States v. Julio Rivera

1 other CourtListener record shares this case name.

• United States v. Julio Rivera
  Third Circuit· 2023-03-17· cited 5×