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Sentencing memo for former federal judge urges probation and stresses mental health issues

By Douglas A. Berman

This local article, headlined "Atlanta Fed Judge Busted With Drugs and Stripper Suffered Depression and Brain Damage, Sentencing Memorandum Says," reviews some notable sentencing arguments being made by a high-profile criminal defendant.  Here are details: Ex-Federal Judge Jack Camp is hoping to stay out of prison, hoping a judge considers his sentencing memorandum that focuses on his mental health and problems in life on March 11. In a memo filed in federal court in Atlanta on Friday, Camp?s attorney William Taylor of Washington writes that Camp has suffered from acute depression, brain-damaging from a bicycle accident and personal family tragedy that may have contributed to him getting busted for buying cocaine for a stripper he was having an affair with...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on February 28, 2011 (boomark / email).