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Two interesting (and very different) sentencing procedure rulings from the Third Circuit

By Douglas A. Berman

Back from a summer weekend, the federal circuit courts have handed down today a lot of noteworthy sentencing decision, and two from the Third Circuit seem especially blogworthy. Here are links and the starting paragraphs from the work of two different Third Circuit panels today: USA v. Doe, No. 09-2615 (3d Cir. Aug. 16, 2010) (available here): This appeal asks whether 18 U.S.C. § 3582(a), which forbids a district court from imposing a term of imprisonment at initial sentencing for the purpose of drug rehabilitation, restricts a district court from considering medical and rehabilitative needs when revoking a defendant?s supervised release and requiring the defendant to serve the remainder of his sentence in prison.  The District Court sentenced the defendant, John Doe, to 24 months of imprisonment upon revocation of his supervised release with the objective of helping him recover from his cocaine addiction...continue to full post

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