United States v. Kravetz

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• holding that “sentencing memoranda are judicial documents subject to the common law presumption of public access”
• holding that “sentencing memoranda are judicial documents subject to the common law presumption of public access”
• noting that “a fear of adverse publicity . . . is insufficient to defeat public access”
• noting that defendant’s “prior publication of the information that he now seeks to protect” undermined his claim of privacy
• noting that decisions restricting public access to criminal discovery materials “are grounded largely on the concerns surrounding the deleterious effect that public access would have on the parties’ search for and exchange of information in the discovery process”
• recognizing “a legitimate concern that the routine disclosure of third-party letters may discourage valuable input from the community during the sentencing process,” and suggesting that this concern must be weighed against the “positive gains” resulting from disclosure

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).