United States Second Circuit

"Cumulative effects" departures are available to sentencing judges when the addition of substantially overlapping enhancements results in a significant increase in the sentencing range minimum (as it does at the higher end of the sentencing table).

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/24/2004
• Published 03/24/2004

Judges

• JON O. NEWMAN, Circuit Judge., Before:  NEWMAN, WINTER, and B.D. PARKER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Nathaniel Z. Marmur, New York, N.Y. (Stillman & Friedman, P.C., New York, N.Y., David I. Schoen, Montgomery, Ala., on the brief), for Defendant-Appellant-Cross-Appellee Lauersen., Vida M. Alvy, Great Neck, N.Y. (Gail Jacobs, Great Neck, N.Y., on the brief), for Defendant-Appellant Jackson., James G. Cavoli, Asst. U.S. Atty., New York, N.Y. (James B. Comey, U.S. Atty., Gary Stein, Lisa Horwitz, Adam Siegel, Asst. U.S. Attys., New York, N.Y., on the brief), for Appellee.