United States v. Manuel Antonio Torres-Echavarria, A/K/A Manuel Baez

How courts have described this case

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• affirming a defendant’s conviction and sentence after the district court rejected the parties’ original plea agreement
• “Impermissible ‘double counting’ is the judicial augmentation of a defendant’s sentence in contravention of the applicable statute or Sentencing Guideline.”
• \Among the reasons that may justify the exercise of discretion to reject a plea agreement is a concern that the resulting sentence would be too lenient.\
• “Among the reasons that may justify the exercise of discretion to reject a plea agreement is a concern that the resulting sentence would be too lenient.”
• “The operative principle of statutory construction is that 3 a specific provision takes precedence over a more general 4 provision.”
• “[DJeportation itself is sufficient to impress upon the mind of the deportee that return is forbidden.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).