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: Second Circuit Sentencing BlogA New Twist On Consecutive Sentences
The New York Times has this article today on the sentencing of a husband and wife (Jennifer Wang and Ruben Chen) team who pled guilty to insider trading. Judge McMahon of the Southern District of New York sentenced each to 18 months imprisonment. But, in an unusual twist, the Judge ordered to two defendants "to serve their sentences one after the other so their infant son would have one parent with him for the three years." An unusual circumstance indeed, and a nice balancing of the Court's need to impose sentence and the defendants' family circumstances.
Full post as published by Second Circuit Sentencing Blog on December 05, 2007 (boomark / email).

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