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U.S. v. Abney, No. 14-3074 (D.C. Cir.) (812 F.3d 1079) (February 5, 2016) (Judge Judith W. Rogers)

Loaded on May 9, 2016 published in Punch and Jurists May 09, 2016
Filed under: Punch And Jurists, Failure to Postpone Sentencing.

This is an interesting decision from the D.C. Circuit in which a divided panel held that the Defendant had been denied effective assistance of counsel when his then-counsel failed to seek a continuance of the Defendant’s sentencing that occurred five days after Congress had passed the Fair Sentencing Act (“FSA”), ...

 

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