United States v. Steven Hammond

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that objections made in a “sentencing memorandum and at sentencing” are “preserved”
• noting that the court must “enforce the literal terms of a plea agreement, 18 construing only ambiguous language in the defendant’s favor”
• rejecting the notion that courts should imply waiver of government’s right to appeal
• Government’s arguments to apply mandatory minimum sentence in sentencing memorandum and at sentencing sufficient to preserve issue on appeal
• “Although Rule 11 gives courts discretion to accept or reject a plea agreement, it does not authorize courts to . . . imply terms into one.”
• approving of a five-year mandatory minimum sentence for arson

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).