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: Second Circuit Sentencing BlogShort Interesting Commentary On The Upper End Of Substantive Reasonableness
United States v. Giordano, No. 07-3487-cr (2d Cir. Aug. 12, 2009) (found here)
Giordano challenged, among other things, the substantive reasonableness of his 37 year sentence for some clearly bad conduct that is not detailed in the Second Circuit's summary order. Of interest to those interested in substantive unreasonableness, the Second Circuit noted that the "sentence is surely at the upper end of the range of reasonableness for these offenses, but we cannot say that this range has been exceeded." What would?
Full post as published by Second Circuit Sentencing Blog on October 21, 2009 (boomark / email).
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