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· 5/3/2013

United States v. Luna-Acosta

Citations

  • 715 F.3d 860
  • 2013 WL 1848761
  • 2013 U.S. App. LEXIS 9054

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that district courts can freely correct their initial oral sentencings at any point before the sentencing hearing is adjourned
  • concluding there was no formal break in proceedings because “most important[ly]” the district court “continued the first hearing . . . without finalizing all of the terms” or permitting the parties to object
  • “A district court’s ability to modify a sentence . . . is jurisdictional.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Briscoe, Seymour, Lucero

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