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· 3/15/1999

United States v. Sacko

Citations

  • 178 F.3d 1
  • 1999 U.S. App. LEXIS 18749
  • 1999 WL 413876

How courts have described this case

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

  • determining age of victim from the indictment, and explaining the relevance of that modified age for the categorical test
  • allowing sentencing court to look to charging document “to discern which type of crime” underlies conviction
  • affirming the sentencing court’s judicial notice of the defendant’s age since his date of birth was written in the state court indict- ment
  • limiting district court’s resort to presentence report to that of determining the character of the conviction and forbidding an examination of the underlying facts to ascertain whether violence was used
  • limiting district court's resort to presentence report to that of determining the character of the conviction and forbidding an examination of the underlying facts to ascertain whether violence was used
  • district court abused its discretion in awarding costs where 7 the plaintiff “had not obtained employment at the time of the filing of the cost bill” and the 8 prevailing party sought $46,710.97

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Torruella, Coffin, Boudin, Selya, Stahl, Lynch, Lipez

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