Shahzade v. Gregory, No. 92-12139-EFH (D.Mass.) (923 F.Supp. 286) (May 8, 1996) (Judge Edward F. Harrington)
Loaded on June 1, 1996
published in Punch and Jurists
June 17, 1996
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Daubert Standards.
Any lawyer who has ever attempted to persuade a judge at sentencing that his client suffered from some physical or mental ailment that ought to qualify him for a downward adjustment in his sentence, knows how rigid the courts are on insisting that the ailment be indisputably documented and …
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