The following excerpt is from United States v. Marchese, 341 F.2d 782 (9th Cir. 1965):
What the trial court here sought to accomplish was apparently to exercise the equivalent of executive clemency. This he was not authorized or entitled to do. Egan v. United States, 268 F.2d 820 (8th Cir. 1959).
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