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United States v. Parris

District Court, E.D. New York

Decided August 14, 2008No. Case 05-CR-636 (FB)(S-2)PublishedCited by 9 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

MEMORANDUM AND STATEMENT OF REASONS

BLOCK, Senior District Judge:

I have sentenced Lennox and Lester Parris today to a term of incarceration of 60 months in the face of an advisory guidelines range of 360 to life. This case represents another example where the guidelines in a securities-fraud prosecution “have so run amok that they are patently absurd on their face,” United States v. Adelson, 441 F.Supp.2d 506, 515 (S.D.N.Y.2006), due to the “kind of ‘piling-on’ of points for which the guidelines have frequently been criticized.” Id. at 510.

Although I do not consider my sentence to be unusually…

2Cases cited24 opinions

  1. Gall v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 2007
  2. Rita v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 2007
  3. Kimbrough v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 2007
  4. United States v. VillafuerteCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 2007
  5. United States v. James RattoballiCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 2006

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3Cited by9 opinions

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  2. United States v. PaniceCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2010
  3. United States v. Michael PeppelCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 2013
  4. United States v. WattDistrict Court, D. Massachusetts · 2010
  5. Stephen May v. David ShinnCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 2022

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