Legal Opinion
United States v. Douglas Brown
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided October 16, 1996No. 269, Docket 96-1174PublishedCited by 104 opinions
1Per curiam
Defendant Douglas Brown appeals a sentence, consisting primarily of five months’ imprisonment, imposed by the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Allen G. Schwartz, Judge). Most of the issues presented in this appeal are disposed of in a summary order entered simultaneously herewith. We write to consider two issues: (1) whether the Supreme Court’s recent decision in Koon v. United States, - U.S. -, 116 S.Ct. 2035, 135 L.Ed.2d 392 (1996), alters this Circuit’s longstanding rule that a judge’s denial of a motion to depart from a sentence range prescribed by the…
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