United States Sixth Circuit

Even if sentencing court implied that it would not have accepted recommendation made by the government in a plea agreement, government's breach of plea agreement by not expressly requesting that the district court sentence defendant at the low end of the guidelines amounted to reversible error under a plain error standard of review, because fundamental fairness and integrity of the judicial proceeding were compromised.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/30/2002
• Published 01/30/2002

Judges

• Before: KEITH, SUHRHEINRICH, and CLAY, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Sixth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Tony R. Arvin, Asst. U.S. Attorney, Paul M. O'Brien (briefed), Asst. U.S. Attorney, Memphis, TN, for Plaintiff-Appellee., Mary C. Jermann (briefed), Wampler & Pierce, Memphis, TN, for Defendant-Appellant.