Legal Opinion
United States v. Leo
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided April 16, 2010No. 08 CR. 874(RJH)Published
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
RICHARD J. HOLWELL, District Judge:
On March 23, 2010, the Court sentenced Daniel Leo to 18 months in prison for racketeering crimes. The Court imposed the sentence to run consecutively to a 60-month sentence imposed by Judge Kaplan in February 2008 for related conduct— namely, two extortion conspiracies that fell within the scope of the later-charged racketeering conduct. The case raised complex issues about how the related conviction and sentence should impact the instant sentence. The Court writes now to explain its analysis. 1
BACKGROUND
On October 31, 2007, Daniel Leo…
2Cases cited9 opinions
- Witte v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1995
- United States v. YannottiCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 2008
- United States v. Robert E. BrennanCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 2005
- Eliot S. Sash v. Michael Zenk, Federal Bureau of PrisonsCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 2005
- United States v. MassinoCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 2008
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