The probation officer is asking the judge in the Brent Wilkes case to give Brent 60 years in prison for his central role in the Duke Cunningham scandal.
As Paul Kiel says, this isn’t the prosecutor, who is part of the adversary proceeding and often asks for a maximal sentence. It’s the probation officer, whose recommendation to the judge is supposed to reflect the sentencing guidelines and extenuating circumstances and whose lead the judge usually follows.
