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Do letters from the public ? often or ever ? influence sentencing judges?

By Douglas A. Berman

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This local story from Florida, headlined "Fans, foes of Mary McCarty flood sentencing judge with suggestions for her fate," prompts the question in the title of this post.  The local story includes quotes from letters to a federal sentencing judge concerning how to sentence a local corrupt politician, and here is the basic backstory: With the fallen county commissioner set to be sentenced Thursday, U.S. District Judge Donald Middlebrooks is receiving a welter of missives from the public ? some urging the maximum five-year sentence spelled out in her plea deal, some advocating no more than community service. McCarty, 54, a Delray Beach commissioner and then an 18-year county commissioner, pleaded guilty in March to misdeeds that included votes on bond deals that benefited herself and her underwriter husband, Kevin...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on June 01, 2009 (boomark / email).

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