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You know your political state senate colleagues don't like you when...

By Douglas A. Berman

they write a public letter to a federal judge asking that he impose a maximum sentencing at your upcoming sentencing.  That is the news from New Jersey according to this post, headlined "GOP senators call for maximum sentencing for James."  Here are the specifics:A week before former Newark Mayor (and state senator) Sharpe James is scheduled to to be sentenced in federal court, five state senators are requesting the maximum sentencing. "We implore you," state senators Bill Baroni (R-Mercer), Jennifer Beck (R-Monmouth), Gerald Cardinale (R-Begen), Joe Kyrillos (R-Monmouth), and Kevin O'Toole (R-Essex), said in a co-authored letter sent this morning to U.S. District Judge William Martini.... According to the Star-Ledger, James's attorneys plan to meet with Martini on Wednesday to urge him to impose far less than a decade in prison on the 72-year old former mayor, who was convicted earlier this year on corruption charges...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on July 21, 2008 (boomark / email).