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Views From The Bench On Sentencing Representation: Part 8

Law360, New York ( March 14, 2017, 11:31 AM EDT) -- What can you do if faced with the government argument that a lesser sentence for your client would depreciate the seriousness of the offense and promote disrespect for the law? As one judge once told me, "Tell me something that your client did when no one was keeping score." In my recent interviews with Judge James C. Mahan of the U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada, Judge Mark L. Wolf of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts in Boston and Chief Judge Jerome B. Simandle of the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey in Camden, they all agreed: Demonstrate that your client is essentially a good person and rehabilitatable....

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