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Notable Second Circuit ruling on problems with long-delayed sentencing

By Douglas A. Berman

The Second Circuit has an intriguing little sentencing ruling today in US v. Ray, No. 08-2795 (2d Cir. Aug. 27, 2009) (available here). Here is how the opinion's official abstract explains the issues covered: Appeal from a judgment of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York (Thomas C. Platt, Judge), sentencing defendant, after a fifteen-year delay, to a one-day term of imprisonment and three years of supervised release with a special condition that she serve six months in a halfway house.  Defendant challenges her conviction and sentence on the grounds that she was deprived of her right to a speedy sentencing under the Speedy Trial Clause of the Sixth Amendment and the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on August 27, 2009 (boomark / email).