United States v. Michael Francis Johnson, United States of America v. Ricardo Bernard Smith

How courts have described this case

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• stating that the presentence reporter is an “agent of the court, not an agent of the prosecution”
• “[A] probation officer continues to be a neutral, information-gathering agent of the court, not an agent of the prosecution.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).