United States Second Circuit

In a case involving multiple counts of conviction, the district court departed downward from the U.S.S.G. without articulating any mitigating circumstance, as is required by 18 U.S.C. section 3553(c)(2) and section 5K2.0. Defendants' sentences are thus vacated and remanded.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/10/2003
• Published 12/10/2003

Judges

• MCLAUGHLIN, Circuit Judge., Before:  McLAUGHLIN, CABRANES, SACK, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Vincent E. Doyle III,Connors & Vilardo, Buffalo, NY, for Defendant-Appellant-Cross-Appellee Donald Benjamin, Jr., John J. Lavin, Lavin & Kleiman, P.C., Buffalo, NY, for Defendant-Appellant-Cross-Appellee Neal Benjamin., Thomas S. Duszkiewicz, Assistant United States Attorney, for Michael A. Battle, United States Attorney for the Western District of New York, Buffalo, NY, for Appellee-Cross-Appellant.