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Third Circuit Holds ‘Bare’ Arrest Record Insufficient to Support Higher Sentence

by Dale Chappell

In a case that reiterated the limits a federal sentencing judge may consider at sentencing, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit held that when a sentencing judge relies on “bare” arrest records in a defendant’s criminal history to justify imposing a higher sentence, it ...

 

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