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U.S. v. Brooks, No. 07-CR-00187 (CPS) (E.D.N.Y.) (2008 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 85658) (October 23, 2008) (Judge Charles P. Sifton)

Loaded on Oct. 1, 2008 published in Punch and Jurists October 20, 2008
Filed under: Punch And Jurists, Confinement in Segregated Housing.

Here the Court granted a rare post-sentencing, Rule 35 motion and ordered a reduction in the defendant’s sentence based on the unusually severe conditions of his presentence confinement in solitary confinement, known as the hole or SHU.

Dwight Brooks pled guilty to a felon-in-possession of a firearm charge …

 

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