Former Waterbury Mayor Joseph Santopietro got a lenient sentence last week, but he didn’t get any special treatment. That’s the assessment of prosecutors, criminal defense attorneys and court officials after Santopietro received probation and home confinement – instead of prison time – for his role in a racketeering case involving Connecticut trash haulers.
Legal experts say federal courts have been increasingly willing to factor in “extraordinary family circumstances” and ignore federal sentencing guidelines in cases involving non-violent lawbreakers. In this case, Santopietro’s lawyers said he had to care for his two small children and his wife, Julie Porzio, an attorney who was wounded in a 2005 shooting outside the Middletown courthouse.
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