United States v. Robert A. Morgan

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• sentencing judge may consider wide range of information, including underlying facts relating to prior acquittals
• sentencing judge may consider wide range of information, including underlying facts relating to prior acquittals
• enhancement of sentence based upon facts pertaining to prior acquittals, and police report summaries of defendant's statements and actions, not violative of due process
• Weston satisfied where presentence report allegations were based on police reports and statements made by defendant himself
• “it is just as reasonable to assume that [the trial court’s] consideration of the acquittal resulted in his imposing the relatively light sentence of two years, as it is to assume ... that his sentence was ‘enhanced’ because of the prior acquittal”

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