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Update on sentencing debate over doctor and wife involved in (extreme!?!) health care fraud

By Douglas A. Berman

In this post from earlier this month, I noted the start of the sentencing debate surrounding a Kansas case in which the feds are seeking the harshest possible sentence, life without parole, for notable (white-collar?) offenses.  This new AP story, headlined " Kansas doctor convicted in overdose deaths seeks 20-year term instead of life," provides the latest report on what the defendants are to argue at sentencing.  Here is how the AP story starts: A Kansas doctor and his wife whose clinic is linked to dozens of overdose deaths have asked a federal judge to sentence them on Tuesday to the mandatory minimum 20 years in prison, rather than the life sentences sought by prosecutors. A court document filed Saturday by defense attorneys in the case of Dr...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on October 18, 2010 (boomark / email).