Cool, I fully acknowledge that this is my naivete, but for what it’s worth I assumed that “The government’s sentencing memorandum” was a memo explaining the judge’s sentencing decision, not what the prosecution was requesting the judge to decide.
Good to know! This may be one of those interpretations that becomes more plausible due to an intervening event. (The quick take was posted well before the judge decided the sentence.)
I can’t think of any circumstances like this in which “the government” would mean the court rather than the government-as-a-party-before-the-court. But that could only be obvious to me because of professional background.
Cool, I fully acknowledge that this is my naivete, but for what it’s worth I assumed that “The government’s sentencing memorandum” was a memo explaining the judge’s sentencing decision, not what the prosecution was requesting the judge to decide.
Good to know! This may be one of those interpretations that becomes more plausible due to an intervening event. (The quick take was posted well before the judge decided the sentence.)
I can’t think of any circumstances like this in which “the government” would mean the court rather than the government-as-a-party-before-the-court. But that could only be obvious to me because of professional background.