U.S. v. Alvarado-Rivera, No. 03-2308 (8th Cir.) (412 F.3d 942) (June 20, 2005) (Judge Diana E. Murphy)
Loaded on Aug. 1, 2005
published in Punch and Jurists
August 22, 2005
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This case is noted for Judge Bright’s dissent to the imposition of a lengthy drug sentence, which he described with these words:
“Martha Alvarado-Rivera was sentenced to ten years in prison, rather than about four years, because the sentencing judge, looking at a written summary of Alvarado-Rivera's unrecorded, untranscribed statement, ...
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