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By Shari Allison

U.S. v. Jacquez, 2008 WL 2694060 (7/9/08) (unpub'd) - The 10th finds the officer reasonably stopped the defendant because the license plate of the car he was driving was registered to a Tommy Largo and there was an outstanding arrest warrant for a "Tommy Largo." The Tommy Largo to whom the plate related was considerably older than the Tommy Largo who was wanted and the defendant. The officer made a reasonable mistake, the 10th holds. The 10th did not require the officer to first find out the physical characteristics of the plate owner or the wanted person, even though that would have been easy to do.U.S. v. Fontenot, 2008 WL 2698646 (7/11/08) (unpub'd) - Under § 5K1.1, the d. ct. is supposed to give substantial weight to the government's sentence recommendation, even when the defendant helped a state prosecution concerning which the government had little knowledge...continue to full post

Full post as published by Tenth Circuit Blog on July 15, 2008 (boomark / email).