Roberts v. United States

Supreme Court of the United States · Decided 1980-04-15

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Mb. Justice Powell delivered the opinion of the Court. The question is whether the District Court properly considered, as one factor in imposing sentence, the petitioner’s refusal to cooperate with officials investigating a criminal conspiracy in which he was a confessed participant. I Petitioner Winfield Roberts accompanied Cecilia Payne to the office of the United Stat…

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