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CA7: Judge's foot in mouth at sentencing gets resentencing; judge gone off deep end?

By John Wesley Hall, Jr.

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Not really relevant to this website, but too strange to not include: A District Judge wanders off the reservation during a sentencing and belittles an Hispanic drug defendant referring to him and his family as "you people" and sounding like he was cracking up. United States v. Figueroa, 2010 U.S. App. LEXIS 19060 (7th Cir. September 13, 2010). These are the two introductory paragraphs. The actual opinion makes one wonder whether the judge should just retire. There was little out of the ordinary in Jose Figueroa's trial and conviction. Figueroa was charged with leading a multimillion-dollar drug conspiracy in Wisconsin from 2005 to 2008. A jury convicted him of one count of conspiracy to possess cocaine with the intent to distribute it and one count of distribution of cocaine...continue to full post

Full post as published by Law Of Criminal Defense on September 15, 2010 (boomark / email).

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