Legal Opinion
United States v. Richard C. Ventrilla
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided November 22, 2000No. 2000PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Per curiam
Appellant Richard Ventrilla appeals from a sentence imposed by the United States District Court for the Western District of New York (Elfvin, J.). Ventrilla contends that his sentence was “imposed in violation of law,” 18 U.S.C. § 3742(a)(1), as a result of the district court’s refusal to grant a downward departure for diminished mental capacity pursuant to U.S.S.G. § 5K2.13. We vacate and remand.
BACKGROUND
In 1996 and 1997, appellant Richard Ventrilla (“Ventrilla”) wrote eighteen anonymous letters to people he did pot know. He threatened that if they did not pay him sums between $25,000 and…
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