Home -> Law Blog Directory -> Criminal Law Blogs -> Sentencing Law and Policy

Criminal Law

: Sentencing Law and Policy

District judge calls federal prosecutors sentencing memorandum "mean-spirited"

By Douglas A. Berman

This interesting piece in the DealBook section of the New York Times reports on a federal district judge expressing significant disconcert with the aggressive sentencing recommendations of federal prosecutors in a recent high-profile white-collar case.  Here are the particulars: A federal judge in Los Angeles lambasted federal prosecutors late Wednesday at the sentencing of Bruce Karatz, the former chief executive of KB Home, who was given five years? probation following his conviction on charges related to backdating stock options. Judge Otis D. Wright II, in rejecting the government?s argument to send Mr. Karatz to prison for six and a half years, called the government?s sentencing memorandum ?mean-spirited and beneath this office.? Prosecutors said in a filing last month that sentencing Mr...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on November 12, 2010 (boomark / email).