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Effective reporting on White acquitted conduct ruling from Sixth Circuit

By Douglas A. Berman

An nice AP article ? which here is headlined "Case with local tie could go to Supreme Court" and here is headlined "Split appeals court upholds bank robbery sentence" ? provides an effective review of the Sixth Circuit's work in the White acquitted conduct en banc case (basics here).  Here are some excerpts: A federal appeals court has upheld a 22-year prison sentence for a convicted bank robber, determining there was enough evidence for nearly tripling the original sentence based on two other charges he was acquitted of in connection with the 2003 crime.... The court's decision in White's case is the latest in the ongoing battle over how federal judges deal with the federal sentencing guidelines and U.S. Supreme Court rulings over what those guidelines mean...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on December 28, 2008 (boomark / email).