Is there any evidence that a federal judge based his sentence on unreliable or false information?
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The following excerpt is from Gelfuso v. Bell, 590 F.2d 754 (9th Cir. 1978):
Farrow v. United States, supra, 580 F.2d at 1359 (emphasis in original). There is nothing in the record to indicate that the district judge Based his sentence on unreliable or false information. His reference to "some aspects of organized crime," 3 the only element of the presentence report that petitioners continue to attack, 4 may have been only a reference to the structure of the operation for which they were convicted. 5
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