United States Eleventh Circuit

Denial of the right of allocution is reversible error where the court did not impose the lowest sentence under the guidelines. Court may not delegate the judicial function of setting a schedule for a prisoner to pay restitution or fines under the Mandatory Victims Restitution Act.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/27/2002
• Published 08/27/2002

Judges

• BARKETT, Circuit Judge:, Before DUBINA and BARKETT, Circuit Judges, and HODGES , District Judge.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Michael T. Caruso, Asst. Federal Public Defender, Kathleen M. Williams, Federal Public Defender, Miami, FL, for Defendant-Appellant., Lisa A. Hirsch, Anne R. Schultz, Lauren Fleischer, Miami, FL, for Plaintiff-Appellee.