U.S. v. Walters, No. 94-30616 (5th Cir.) (87 F.3d 663) (June 26, 1996) (Judge E. Grady Jolly)
Loaded on Aug. 1, 1996
published in Punch and Jurists
August 05, 1996
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Mitigating Role/Circumstances/Evidence.
Here's another case that addresses the growing efforts by defendants to mitigate the onerous sentences that the Government seeks to impose though its indiscriminate use of money laundering charges in virtually every conceivable case. One of the many issues raised in this appeal was the validity of Judge Berrigan's downward ...
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