United States v. Samuel Camarillo-Tello

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• concluding that government breached the plea agreement by failing to comply with its literal terms
• holding that the government’s previous recommendation in accord with the plea agreement was “undercut ... by the government’s affirmative statement in support of the probation officer’s [contrary] recommendation”
• noting that a prosecutor’s promise in a plea agreement “is not fulfilled if, while making the recommendation, the prosecutor contradicts that recommendation with statements indicating a preference for a harsher sentence”
• holding, in a case without provisions comparable to Paragraphs 12(a) and (c), that a promise to recommend a departure is not fulfilled if, while making the recommendation, the prosecutor contradicts that recommendation with statements indicating a preference for a harsher sentence
• “What the defendant wants and is entitled to is the added persuasiveness of the government’s support regardless of outcome.”

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