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Judge Jack Weinstein takes a field trip to aid his sentencing efforts

By Douglas A. Berman

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US District Judge Jack Weinstein, who long ago secured a place in my Sentencing Hall of Fame, garners still more appreciation from me based on this new AP article. The article, headlined "Veteran federal judge visits drug gang's NYC turf," reports on Judge Weinstein's recent sentencing field trip: [L]ongtime federal Judge Jack B. Weinstein - 6-foot-2 and looking fit - strolled mostly in silence on Friday around the Louis Armstrong Houses in Bedford-Stuyvesant - the same streets where authorities say armed thugs once terrorized residents with an "open-air drug bazaar." Weinstein, who's overseeing the case against the crack cocaine crew, had decided it was important to leave his chambers, don his dark overcoat and fedora and visit the defendants' former turf...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on March 06, 2011 (boomark / email).

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