United States Second Circuit

Sentence for money laundering is vacated and remanded for resentencing where counsel's failure to challenge the pre-sentence report for its omission of an applicable two-level reduction for global disposition constitutes ineffective assistance. Counsel's failure to challenge the loss calculation amount should also be considered on remand.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/12/2009
• Published 03/12/2009

Judges

• PER CURIAM:, Before SACK and WESLEY, Circuit Judges, and KAHN, District Judge.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Glenn A. Obedin, Bassett & Bassett, P.C., Central Islip, NY, for Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Benton J. Campbell, United States Attorney, Eastern District of New York (David C. James, Bonnie S. Klapper, Assistant United States Attorneys, of counsel), Brooklyn, NY, for Appellee.