Legal Opinion
United States v. Solomon Sprei
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided May 28, 1998No. Docket 97-1206PublishedCited by 40 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OAKES, Senior Circuit Judge:
The United States of America appeals from a sentence imposed on appellee Solomon Sprei in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, Lewis A. Kaplan, Judge. The district court departed downward in response to a motion made by Sprei’s rabbi on behalf of the Orthodox Jewish sect of which Sprei is a member. Finding that the custom of Sprei’s community is for fathers to arrange the marriages of their children, the court made a downward departure in sentencing, based in part on a determination that a long period of incarceration would unduly…
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