United States Second Circuit

Downward departures on "lesser harm" (U.S.S.G. section 5K2.11) and "exceptional family circumstances" (section 5K2.0) grounds were unavailable in a case against a deported alien reentering the country illegally.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/20/2002
• Published 12/20/2002

Judges

• JON O. NEWMAN, Circuit Judge., Before: NEWMAN and POOLER, Circuit Judges, and JONES , District Judge.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Sara M. Lord, Asst. U.S. Atty., Albany, N.Y. (Joseph A. Pavone, U.S. Atty., Robert P. Storch, Asst. U.S. Atty., Albany, N.Y., on the brief), for Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Frederick Rench, Clifton Park, N.Y., submitted a brief for Defendant-Appellee.