United States Second Circuit
U.S. v .Cavera, 054591
In an en banc rehearing, an above-Guidelines sentence of twenty-four months imprisonment for conspiring to deal in and to transport firearms in violation of 18 U.S.C. section 371 is affirmed where: 1) sentencing disparities among different federal districts were warranted by the greater need for deterrence in New York, with its more profitable black market in firearms; and 2) given the deference owed to district judges, deterrence-based rationale sufficed to justify the sentence.
Appellate Information
- Decided 12/04/2008
- Published 12/04/2008
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- United States Second Circuit