United States v. George Rivera

JACOBS, Circuit Judge.

By summary order issued February 21, 2002, we affirmed a judgment of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Kram, J.), denying motions by George Rivera for recusal of the district judge pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 455(b)(1) and for modification of sentence pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c). Rivera, pro se, petitions for rehearing on both issues. We deny rehearing, but it appears that the ground urged for modification of the sentence, fully considered in our summary order, would benefit from expanded treatment in a published opinion.

In seeking a…