United States First Circuit

Court's refusal to consider the racial aspect of defendant's family circumstances in considering a downward sentence departure is irrelevant, where defendant was ineligible for an "exceptional family circumstances" departure.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/20/2002
• Published 08/20/2002

Judges

• LIPEZ, Circuit Judge., Before LIPEZ, Circuit Judge, CAMPBELL and BOWNES, Senior Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Leo T. Sorokin,Federal Defender Office, for appellant., Charles W. Rankin, Rankin & Sultan, and John Reinstein, ACLU of Massachusetts, on brief as amicus curiae for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Karen M. Quesnel, with whom Eileen J. O'Connor, Assistant Attorney General, Robert E. Lindsay, Alan Hechtkopf, Michael Karam, and Michael J. Sullivan were on brief, for appellee.