An inexplicable 15-year delay in complying with an appellate court's order followed by the flawed resentencing of a drug defendant has prompted the appellate court to assign the case to a different judge. On Wednesday the 2nd Circuit held that New York federal Judge Thomas Platt made the "root error" of using his initial sentence as a "baseline" for resentencing while ignoring that much had changed since the 2008 restart of proceedings. This is not the first time the circuit has pulled Platt from a case.
May 07, 2010 at 12:00 AM
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An inexplicable 15-year delay in complying with an appellate court’s order followed by the flawed resentencing of a drug defendant has prompted the appellate court to assign the case to a different judge.
In 1993, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals directed Eastern District Judge Thomas Platt to resentence Hector Hernandez because the judge had failed to articulate how Hernandez’s alleged leadership position in a drug gang justified a longer prison term.
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