United States First Circuit

In a sentencing appeal involving the intersection between the right of a sentencing judge to receive confidential advice from probation officers and the right of a convicted defendant to know the nature of the information upon which he is sentenced and to challenge its relevancy and accuracy, the sentence is affirmed where the district court did not plainly err by engaging in brief, off-the-record conversations with a probation officer during the appellant's sentencing.

Appellate Information

• Published 2017/01/26

Judges

• SELYA

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel