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Interesting sentencing issues covered as Second Circuit affirms peonage conviction

By Douglas A. Berman

The Second Circuit has a lengthy opinion today in the intriguing case of US v. Sabhnani, No. 08-3720 (2d Cir. Mar. 25, 2010) (available here), which ends with 20+ pages discussing a variety or intriguing sentencing issues. Here is the opinion's own sumary of its coverage: Defendants-Appellants Mahender Murlidhar Sabhnani and Varsha Mahender Sabhnani appeal from a judgment of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York (Spatt, J.).  Following a jury trial, both defendants were convicted on counts of forced labor, harboring aliens, peonage, and document servitude, as well as conspiracy to commit each of the substantive offenses, with Mahender Sabhnani receiving a sentence of 40 months? imprisonment and Varsha Sabhnani a sentence of 132 months? imprisonment...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on March 25, 2010 (boomark / email).