Court Opinion

ID: 9465205
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 00:39:02.920765+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:39:02.095357
License: Public Domain

HARLINGTON WOOD, Jr., Circuit Judge,
concurring.
I join in Judge Reynolds’ opinion and add only a few comments.
There is nothing in the record reflecting adversely upon government counsel to suggest that he acted in bad faith or in deliberate disregard of the plea agreement.
By joining in the opinion requiring that the prior sentence be vacated and the case remanded to the district court for resen-tencing, I do not mean to imply that any new sentence to be imposed must necessarily be lower than the original sentence, only that the sentencing judge when he exercises his sentencing discretion should have the full benefit of the government’s complete fulfillment of all its obligations under the particular plea agreement.
As a matter of precedent, I believe it is important that the government be required to carefully and fully live up to any plea agreement it has seen fit to enter into.