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: Sentencing Law and Policy

Would Jean Valjean get a departure or variance in the federal sentencing system?

By Douglas A. Berman

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The question in the title of this post with the reference to the fictional thief made famous in Victor Hugo?s classic Les Miserables is inspired by this local news story from the heartland.  The piece is headlined "Hoosier says robbery was to help pay for wife's cancer treatment," and here are the basic details: Sentencing will be in September for an Indiana man who federal authorities say helped rob a southern Illinois bank at Christmastime because he needed the loot to pay for his wife's cancer treatment. Sixty-one-year-old Daniel Ravellette of Vincennes, Ind., pleaded guilty Tuesday in East St. Louis to aggravated bank robbery and a weapons count.  Authorities say Ravellette and another masked suspect robbed a Regions Bank in Lebanon last Dec...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on May 20, 2010 (boomark / email).

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