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Could asking judge to officiate defendant's wedding be a sneaky sentencing ploy?

By Douglas A. Berman

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I have reported before on cases in which a defendant has gotten married at the same time he is sentenced (see here and here), but this new article from the Washington Post puts a new spin on this kind of tale. Apparently the prosecution is objecting to what it fears is a sentencing ploy:A former State Department officer has a proposal for U.S. District Judge Gerald Bruce Lee: Before the judge sentences him on child pornography charges, he wants Lee to perform his wedding ceremony. Lee is considering the highly unusual request, under which Gons Gutierrez Nachman, 42, would tie the knot with his 21-year-old Brazilian fiancee in the same Alexandria federal courtroom where he admitted having sex with three underage girls while posted overseas...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on June 06, 2008 (boomark / email).

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