Allocution in United States

Practical Information

Note: Some of this information was last updated in 1982

The requirement that a trial judge ask a defendant to show legal cause why the sentence should not be pronounced upon the verdict of conviction. The judge usually asks the defendant to offer evidence of mitigating circumstances before pronouncing sentence.

(Revised by Ann De Vries)

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