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Procedural reasonableness reversal leads to big substantive sentence reduction

By Douglas A. Berman

Thanks to a reader, I noticed a local article updating the interesting sentencing story of US v. Maynor.  As detailed in this February post, the Fourth Circuit (in an unpublished opinion!) found an above-guideline sentence given to a former local sheriff to be procedurally unreasonable.  This local article now provides, in the words of Paul Harvey, the rest of the story: Former Robeson County Sheriff Glenn Maynor?s federal prison sentence was cut to two years on Tuesday, according a newspaper report.  The Robesonianreported Tuesday evening that Maynor?s six-year sentence was dropped to 24 months.... In February, the U.S. Court of Appeals ruled that Glenn Maynor?s six-year sentence was too harsh in light of sentencing guidelines and the facts that the judge cited in issuing the sentence...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on May 06, 2009 (boomark / email).