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"Controversial sentence in TV series scam is overturned; The ruling by an appellate panel is another rebuke of Judge Manuel Real and means admitted con man Joseph Medawar could face more time"

"Controversial sentence in TV series scam is overturned; The ruling by an appellate panel is another rebuke of Judge Manuel Real and means admitted con man Joseph Medawar could face more time": This article appeared Saturday in The Los Angeles Times.

You can access Wednesday's non-precedential ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit at this link.

The LATimes article notes that "Last year, the judicial council of the 9th Circuit reprimanded Real, a federal judge in L.A. since 1966, on the grounds that he had exhibited a 'pattern and practice of not providing reasons for his decisions when required to do so.'" I discussed the Judicial Conference Committee on Judicial Conduct and Disability's review of that proposed reprimand in last week's installment of my "On Appeal" column for law.com.

Full post as published by How Appealing on March 16, 2008 (boomark / email).