United States Second Circuit

The government did not act wrongfully or in bad faith in electing not to move for a downward sentence departure, for what defendant alleges was substantial assistance to the government, where the government's dissatisfaction with defendant's assistance was honest.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/18/2002
• Published 07/18/2002

Judges

• VAN GRAAFEILAND, Senior Circuit Judge., VAN GRAAFEILAND, WINTER and SACK, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• I. Bennett Capers, Esq., United States Attorney's Office, Southern District of New York, for Appellee., David E. Liebman, Esq., Law Office of David E. Liebman, Esq. New York, NY, for Defendant-Appellant.