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U.S. v. Ballard, No. 08 CR 62(JSR) (S.D.N.Y.) (599 F.Supp.2d 539) (March 2, 2009) (Judge Jed S. Rakoff)

Loaded on April 1, 2009 published in Punch and Jurists April 20, 2009
Filed under: Punch And Jurists, Stacking Mandatory Minimum Sentences.

This is another in a series of recent decisions from the Second Circuit in which a court has refused to go along with the Government’s desire to squeeze out the maximum possible sentence, allowable under a literal reading of the law, no matter how anomalous or absurd the result may ...

 

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