United States v. Paul Williams

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• concluding that a court may further consider “the seriousness of his offense” in imposing a sentence for a supervised release violation
• concluding that a court may consider “the seriousness of the offense” in imposing a supervised release revocation sentence
• explaining that the statute authorizing revocations of supervised release permits a trial judge to consider the seriousness of an offense to “protect[ ] the public from further crimes of the defendant”
• noting the “little, if any, weight” given a defendant’s confrontation interest “where the declarant’s absence is the result of intimidation by the defendant”
• “[T]he court in sentencing a defendant for violation of supervised release may properly consider the seriousness of his offense.”
• “In the balancing process, the defendant’s interest in confronting the declarant is entitled to little, if any, weight where the declarant’s absence is the result of intimidation by the defendant.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).