Legal Opinion
United States v. Daniel Core Jack Cruz, Javier Reyes
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided September 9, 1997No. 1649, Docket 96-1790PublishedCited by 56 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LEVAL, Circuit Judge:
This appeal from a sentence imposed on resentencing raises the question whether the law forbids downward departure based on the defendant’s conduct in prison while serving the sentence initially imposed. At his resentencing hearing, defendant Javier Reyes sought a downward departure based on evidence of his rehabilitation during his several years of incarceration. The United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Charles S. Haight, Jr., Judge) declined to depart, not because it found departure unwarranted on the facts, but because it believed…
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