UNITED STATES v. AKERS

No. CR 74-33.

499 F.Supp. 46 (1974)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, v. James Wesley AKERS, James Arthur Cronin, Frank Stearns Giese, and Chester Benson Wallace, Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Oregon.

November 21, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles H. Turner, Portland, Or., for plaintiff.

Donald W. Chambers, Portland, Or., for defendant Cronin.

Charles P. A. Paulson, Portland, Or., Michael E. Withey, Seattle, Wash., for defendant Giese.


OPINION

(Sentencing)

JAMES M. BURNS, District Judge:

It is my custom, and that of the other judges on this court, to discuss the reasons for sentences we impose.1 We are encouraged to do so by the American Bar Association's Standards of Criminal Justice and I believe it a wise practice. Defendants, attorneys, the public at large and, not least, judges themselves are well...

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