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· 10/12/1989

United States v. Patrick John Grant

Citations

  • 886 F.2d 1513
  • 1989 U.S. App. LEXIS 15547
  • 1989 WL 119197

How courts have described this case

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

  • rejecting defendant's argument that motion requirement of section 5K1.1 denies due process by giving prosecutors absolute discretion to control district court's departure from Guidelines
  • “[w]e need not consider the related question of whether a prosecutor’s arbitrary or bad faith refusal to move for a section 5K1.1 departure violates due process because Grant has not presented the issue to this court”

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Judges: McMillian, Heaney, Fagg

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