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Second Circuit Issues Notable Decision Distilling Recent Developments in Sentencing Jurisprudence and Clearly Reaffirming Centrality of Sentencing Court?s Discretion

In a lengthy opinion authored by Judge Reena Raggi, the Second Circuit has elegantly distilled recent developments in federal sentencing jurisprudence.  In the process, it has categorically reaffirmed the centrality of the ?individualized assessment? of the district court, which ?has access to, and greater familiarity with, the individual case and the individual defendant before [it]? and is charged with the ?particular trust? of ensuring that ?every convicted person [be considered] as an i read more

Full post as published by New York Federal Criminal Practice on June 28, 2008 (boomark / email).