Another notable district court fast-track ruling
December 19, 2005
A kind reader kindly forwarded to me the strong sentencing opinion by SDNY District Judge Robert Sweet in US v. Santos, No. 05 CR 522 (SDNY Dec. 12, 2005) (available for download below). In Santos, Judge Sweet gave a substantially shorter non-guideline sentence (24 rather than the 57 month guideline sentence) primarily because of (1) fast-track disparity and (2) the “double-counting” involved in increasing the defendant’s offense level and the criminal history category with the same drug conviction.