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Tenth Circuit· 7/10/2007

United States v. VanDam

Citations

  • 493 F.3d 1194
  • 2007 U.S. App. LEXIS 16271
  • 2007 WL 1982155

How courts have described this case

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

  • honoring defendant's request \that the government be required to fulfill its promise in front of the same sentencing judge\
  • “Resentencing is the typical remedy for the breach of a plea agreement.”
  • \Resentencing is the typical remedy for the breach of a plea agreement.\
  • describing specific performance as the “typical remedy” and the “less drastic remedy”
  • “[w]hen . . . the defendant does not seek to withdraw his guilty plea, the less drastic remedy of resentencing appears to be most apt”
  • “This Court reviews de novo the question of whether the government has breached a plea agreement, even when the defendant fails to preserve this objection below.”

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Judges: Lucero, McKay, Holmes

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24 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

Cites

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