United States Second Circuit

Conviction and sentence following guilty plea to conspiracy to create and sell counterfeit Social Security and alien registration receipt cards is affirmed over claim that defendant's sentence violates the "parsimony clause" of 18 U.S.C. section 3553(a), which requires the district court to impose a sentence sufficient, but not greater than necessary, to comply with section 3553(a)(2).

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/28/2006
• Published 11/28/2006

Judges

• JOHN M. WALKER, JR., Circuit Judge., Before:  WALKER, LEVAL and RAGGI, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Philip L. Weinstein, Federal Defenders of New York, Inc., Appeals Bureau, New York, NY, for Defendant-Appellant., Jesse M. Furman, Assistant United States Attorney (Michael J. Garcia, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Katherine Polk Failla, Assistant United States Attorney, on the brief), New York, NY, for Appellee.