United States v. VandeBrake

Early in its lengthy sentencing colloquy the district court, quoting Judge Learned Hand, states, “ ‘[A] judge ... is charged to see that the law is properly administered and it is a duty which he cannot discharge by remaining inert.’ ” United States v. VandeBrake, 771 F.Supp.2d 961, 966 (N.D.Iowa 2011) (quoting United States v. Marzano, 149 F.2d 923, 925 (2d Cir.1945)). There is, though, something to be said for some measure of inertness in the course of a criminal sentencing procedure fueled at the outset by a judicial observation that the defendant suffered from “insatiable greed, which is…