Commonwealth v. Singleton

Garsh, E. Susan, J.

The defendant, Tanya Singleton, stands before this court for sentencing after pleading guilty to criminal contempt. The criminal contempt arises out of Ms. Singleton’s refusal, after receiving a grant of immunity, to testify before a grand juiy investigating the death of Odin Lloyd. There is no task facing a judge that is more important and more difficult than the fashioning of an appropriate sentence.

I have assessed all the information made available to me, including certain medical records of Ms. Singleton and a letter from Dr. Susan Tannenbaum, a medical oncologist at…