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District Judge rejects defense request to keep private next week's sentencing of Cameron Douglas

By Douglas A. Berman

The New York Post has this new report headlined "Cameron Douglas getting public sentencing." Here are the details: Cameron Douglas should start getting ready for his close-up. A judge today ordered a public sentencing for the drug-dealing Hollywood heir, whose lawyers sought to have his punishment imposed in private on Tuesday. Manhattan federal Judge Richard Berman [no relation] also told defense lawyers to re-file their inch-thick plea for leniency -- without much of the blacked-out editing job that kept huge portions hidden from public view. The ruling came after The Post objected to the defense's request to keep the sentencing private and to its desire to hide many portions of the plea for leniency.  Among the information withheld is a letter to the judge from Douglas' Oscar-winning dad, Michael Douglas, who's set to star in a sequel to his hit 1987 film "Wall Street...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on April 16, 2010 (boomark / email).