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Military man gets break at federal sentencing

By Douglas A. Berman

Regular readers know that I support giving defendants credit for prior good works at sentencing, in part because they always gets discredit for prior bad works in the form of criminal history enhancements.  For this reason, I found this local federal sentencing story, headlined "Decorated veteran gets a break at sentencing," quite interesting.  Here are details:By all accounts, Timothy Pentaleri made quite an impression as a major in the Army Reserves. He apparently made an impression on U.S. District Judge Paul Magnuson, too.   Magnuson decided Wednesday that the decorated veteran deserved a sizable break on his sentence for attempting to kidnap his ex-girlfriend last June at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on April 10, 2008 (boomark / email).