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Long sentence (including big upward variance) for failure to register

By Douglas A. Berman

This local story from New York, which is headlined "Sex offender gets 5½ years for failing to register," reports on the longest federal sentence I have seen for the relatively new crime of failing to register.  As the story details, the sentence given in this case appears to be a huge upward variance from the applicable guidelines (which seems based on some unconvicted conduct): A Fort Covington man will serve 51/2 years in federal prison for failing to register as a sex offender in New York. Patrick P. Romeo, 68, of 81 Fort Covington St., was sentenced Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Syracuse before Judge Glenn T. Suddaby for violating the federal Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act. Romeo admitted in February in federal court that he failed to register as a sex offender in New York...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on July 16, 2009 (boomark / email).