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A notable and curious (and suspect?) sentence "correction"

By Douglas A. Berman

As detailed in this South Florida Sun-Sentinel article, headlined "Judge resentences Iranian woman, gives her 2 years in prison," something seems a little hinky about a federal judge "correcting" a sentence to add two years' imprisonment to an original sentence of time-served.  Here are the details:Shahrazad Mir Gholikhan, an Iranian woman accused of trying to export night vision goggles, thought her guilty plea last month would be her ticket back to her family. The federal prosecutor had recommended a term of time served for the 30-year-old mother's role in the illegal plot to trade with Iran, a U.S.-designated terrorist nation. U.S. District Judge James Cohn imposed the sentence at an April 25 hearing in Fort Lauderdale federal court...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on May 07, 2008 (boomark / email).