United States Second Circuit

Conviction and sentence based on guilty plea to racketeering and to conspiracies to commit murder and to distribute heroin and cocaine are affirmed, however, case is remanded for entry of a written statement of reasons for imposing a below-Guidelines sentence pursuant to 18 U.S.C. section 3553(c)(2).

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/30/2007
• Published 08/30/2007

Judges

• PER CURIAM:, Before: CALABRESI, RAGGI, HALL, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Marjorie M. Smith, Law Office of Marjorie M. Smith, Piermont, NY, Amicus curiae.


• For Appellees:
  
• Gary G. Becker, New York, NY, for Defendant-Appellant Carl Hall., Jessica A. Masella, Celeste L. Koeleveld, Assistant United States Attorneys (Michael J. Garcia, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Boyd M. Johnson, Assistant United States Attorney, on the brief), New York, NY, for Appellee.