Legal Opinion
United States v. Delgado
District Court, E.D. New York
Decided February 19, 1998No. 97 CR 708PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM, JUDGMENT, AND ORDER
WEINSTEIN, Senior District Judge.
I. Introduction
People often live lives of silent desperation. Henry David Thoreau, Walden, or Life in the Woods 9 (Vintage Books 1991)(1854). This defendant, faced with a desperate situation, resorted to criminal action quite inconsistent with her past life and probable future. Under the circumstances, a downward departure in her sentence is appropriate.
II. Facts
Defendant, born in Cali, Columbia in 1950, was one of six children. Her father was a sanitation worker, her mother sorted coffee beans. The child had only three years of…
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- United States of America, Appellee/cross-Appellant v. Howard Broderson, Defendant-Appellant/cross-AppelleeCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1995
- United States v. GrandmaisonCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1996
- United States v. David Big Crow, United States of America v. David Big CrowCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1990
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