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Third Circuit requires prosecutors to do more with less in Fumo sentencing appeal

By Douglas A. Berman

As noted in this post last week, defense attorneys in an appellate fight over the proper federal sentence for a high-profile state politician objected to prosecutors' request to file a super-sized brief.  Now, as detailed in this piece in The Legal Intelligencer, which is headlined "3rd Circuit Judge Orders Feds to Trim Big Brief in Fumo Case," the defense achieved a partial victory in this first Fumo fight: Federal prosecutors are demanding a longer prison sentence for former Pennsylvania state Sen. Vincent Fumo, but first they're going to have to make their own appellate brief considerably shorter. In a quick victory for the Fumo defense team, the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ordered prosecutors to slash their brief by about 20 percent, reducing it from more than 53,000 words to no more than 42,500...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on July 21, 2010 (boomark / email).