First Circuit: Prosecutor’s Breach of Plea Agreement 
Requires Government’s Specific Performance of Agreement, 
Not Specific Performance by District Court

The United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit vacated a defendant’s sentence due to the prosecutor’s breach of the parties’ plea agreement, and the Court ordered resentencing before a different judge.

Before the Court was the appeal of Hector Maldonado-Maldonado, who along with one of his cellmates, Miguel …