Legal Opinion
United States v. Giuseppe Pugliese and Pietro Pugliese
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided November 21, 1986No. 1181, 1182, Dockets 85-1460, 85-1461PublishedCited by 66 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CARDAMONE, Circuit Judge:
These appeals from judgments imposing in each case 30-year terms of imprisonment question whether the sentencing court’s consideration of testimony regarding Pietro Pugliese at a sentencing proceeding before another judge comports with due process. Recognizing the long held necessity for a sentencing court to have vast discretion in order to individualize punishment, the Supreme Court, in Williams v. New York, 337 U.S. 241, 69 S.Ct. 1079, 93 L.Ed. 1337 (1949), cautioned lower courts not to treat the due process clause as a reason to abandon the widely accepted…
2Cases cited19 opinions
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- Gardner v. FloridaSupreme Court of the United States · 1977
- Townsend v. BurkeSupreme Court of the United States · 1948
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