United States v. Robert James Miller

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• holding that “[a]lthough courts are free to accept or reject individual charge bargains,” they also “should be wary of second-guessing prosecutorial choices”
• holding that “categorical rules” for rejecting plea agreements are impermissible
• instructing the district court to “set forth, on the record ... the prosecutor’s reasons for framing the bargain as he did”
• criticizing a district court for “categorically rejecting all one-count pleas to multiple count indictments”
• \The proper judicial role in the sentence bargaining process is not raised by this case.\
• “Courts do not know which charges are best initiated at which time, . . . which allocation of prosecutorial (continued...

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