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Big break given to prominent former judge/prosecutor for back-end cooperation

By Douglas A. Berman

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A helpful reader alerted me to this local story of a notable white-collar defendant getting a huge back-end sentencing break for cooperation. Here are the details: Sam Currin, a former judge, federal prosecutor and state Republican Party chairman, was ordered released from prison after serving a fraction of a nearly six-year sentence for money laundering and obstruction. Senior U.S. District Judge W. Earl Britt made the order Monday. Federal prosecutors recommended in May that Currin, imprisoned since 2007, have his original 70-month sentence cut in half following his testimony against a co-conspirator, David A. Hagen. Thomas Walker, one of Currin's defense attorneys, argued in court Monday that the fallen federal prosecutor and former state judge should be granted the kind of leniency he often opposed for criminals...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on July 14, 2009 (boomark / email).

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