In addition, the recent case of Koon v. United States, 116 S.Ct. 2035 (1996), focuses renewed attention on the role of the officer in discussing and recommending departures, and provides guidance for carrying out that role. There are various ways the independent role of the probation officer at sentencing is challenged or impeded...
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The probation officer is sometimes impeded from doing a complete investigation by the parties' withholding information, and, for various reasons, plea agreements do not always accurately reflect the facts of the case.1 Critics of the guideline system have periodically complained about probation officer "advocacy"2 and called for restricting probation officers to computing the "matrix calculations" or restricting them from making recommendations on "discretionary decisions" such as departures...
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