An Augusta district court judge assigned temporarily to a federal appeals court panel last week bemoaned federal prosecutors’ “lackadaisical” approach to sentencing hearings.
The concurring opinion by Senior U.S. District Judge Dudley Bowen Jr. came in a south Florida case decided by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. The appeals court panel threw out the 10-year sentence given to a man convicted of defrauding purchasers of vending machines, saying prosecutors hadn’t proven a key factor that drove the sentence.
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