Legal Opinion
United States v. Valerie Manzella
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided February 8, 2007No. 06-3434PublishedCited by 43 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
AMBRO, Circuit Judge.
Section 3582(a) of Title 18 requires sentencing judges to “recogniz[e] that imprisonment is not an appropriate means of promoting correction and rehabilitation.” We conclude that the District Court, despite the best of intentions, violated this statutory command by sentencing Valerie Manzella to 30 months of imprisonment solely because a term of that length was believed necessary to make her eligible for a 500-hour drug treatment program offered by the Bureau of Prisons.
I. Factual Background
Manzella pled guilty to one count of “Uttering a Counterfeit Security of an…
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