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What (precise?) sentence should Erin Andrews advocate for her stalker/peeper?

By Douglas A. Berman

In this post earlier today, I noted the peculiar sentencing recommendation coming from federal prosecutors for the stalker/peeper who followed and filmed ESPN reporter Erin Andrews: only a 27-month prison term and exactly $334,808.27 in restitution.  I now see this follow-up story from the New York Daily News headlined, "ESPN's Erin Andrews says 27-month sentence for slimy video voyeur Michael Barrett is not enough."  Here's more: Prosecutors asked a judge to put perv Michael Barrett behind bars for just a little more than two years in new court documents filed with the U.S. District Court in Los Angeles. Andrews' lawyer Marshall Grossman said that's inadequate. "She is the victim," he told the Daily News. "My strong sense is that she will argue, as she did before, in favor of a tougher sentence...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on February 10, 2010 (boomark / email).