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U.S. v. Castellanos, No. 03-1036 (2nd Cir.) (355 F.3d 56) (December 1, 2003) (Judge Jon O. Newman)

Loaded on Nov. 1, 2003 published in Punch and Jurists November 10, 2003
Filed under: Punch And Jurists, Aberrant Behavior.

Here, clarifying and somewhat amplifying its earlier decision in U.S. v. Gonzalez, 281 F.3d 38 (2nd Cir. 2002), the Second Circuit held that under U.S.S.G. § 5K2.20, the “absence or presence of spontaneity alone never determines whether criminal conduct is aberrant behavior. A non-spontaneous criminal act might be aberrant behavior. ...

 

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