Federal trial judges’ sentencing enhancement decisions should only be disturbed if there was a “clear error,” the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals recently said in an opinion that upheld the doubling of a prison term meted out to a Luzerne County official convicted of bribery.
The standard of review adopted by the appeals court in an opinion written by Judge Marjorie O. Rendell was a deferential one, the panel said.
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