United States Second Circuit

Sentence is affirmed where the district court correctly applied both the 16-level enhancement and the Guidelines Manual in effect at the time of sentencing, and did not misapprehend its authority to depart downward on the basis of extreme childhood abuse.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/17/2003
• Published 11/17/2003

Judges

• SOTOMAYOR, Circuit Judge., Before:  CARDAMONE, SOTOMAYOR, and KATZMANN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Valerie Amsterdam,Amsterdam & Branden, New York, NY, for defendant-appellant., Michael M. Purpura, Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York (James B. Comey, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, on the brief;  Gary Stein, Assistant United States Attorney, of counsel), New York, NY, for appellee.