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1. The document summarizes the 1916 Supreme Court case Ex parte United States, where the Court ruled that federal courts do not have the inherent power to indefinitely suspend sentences and put prisoners on probation. 2. As a result of this "Killits decision," around 5,000 offenders placed on probation by federal courts received pardons from the President, and courts looked for new ways to apply probation despite the ruling. 3. While the decision did not establish probation in federal courts, it legalized

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Jan Bryan Mangua

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