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U.S. v. Rivera-Ruperto, No. 12-2364 (1st Cir.) (852 F.3d 1) (January 13, 2017) (Judge O. Rogeriee Thompson)

Loaded on May 29, 2017 published in Punch and Jurists May 29, 2017
Filed under: Punch And Jurists, Cruel and Unusual Punishment.

This decision is noted for Judge Juan Torruella’s delicious and heart-warming dissent in which he railed against the rank idiocy of a combined sentence of 161 plus years given to a man who provided security services during six separate fake drug transactions staged by the FBI.

The defendant, Wendell Rivera-Ruperto, ...

 

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