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In her sentencing submission, Ellison's lawyers wrote that she had been living a quiet life since the trial, working on a novel and helping her parents (both economists affiliated with MIT) with a ...
The report has an immediate purpose: to help the court determine an appropriate sentence as well as aide in officer sentencing recommendations. The report serves to collect objective, relevant, and factual information on a specific defendant. [7] Since the advent of the sentencing guidelines, the importance of the presentence reports has increased.
Hanes’ lawyer John Stang, who did not respond to a request for comment, in a sentencing submission wrote, “Mr. Hanes made some very bad choices after being caught up in an extremely well-run ...
In a sentencing submission, Bicher's attorney argued for leniency, blaming landlords for some of the Manhattan apartment troubles. In a submission by prosecutors, the government said Bicher fought ...
The Sentencing Table [7] in the Guidelines Manual [8] shows the relationship between these two factors; for each pairing of offense level and criminal history category, the Table specifies a sentencing range, in months, within which the court may sentence a defendant. For example, for a defendant convicted on an offense with a total offense ...
The exception to this rule occurs when the court determines that such use would violate the ex post facto clause of the Constitution – in other words, if the sentencing guidelines have changed so as to increase the penalty "after the fact", so that the sentence is more severe on the sentencing date than was established on the date that the ...
In a sentencing submission, Bankman-Fried's lawyer Marc Mukasey told U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan that a guidelines range between 5-1/4 and 6-1/2 years would be an appropriate prison term ...
During the sentencing submissions, the defense urged the jury to settle on a life sentence, bringing up Nelson's broken childhood, his past experiences of being a victim of child abuse and sexual assault, and the possible harmful implications of his premature birth on his brain.