It took two rulings under the federal sentencing guidelines to spare police officer Justin Volpe life in prison for his assault on Abner Louima in a Brooklyn police station in 1997. Judge Eugene Nickerson rejected the probation department's request to increase Volpe's sentence because Volpe threatened to kill Louima if he told anyone he had been sodomized by the officer. And Nickerson further decreased the sentence because of the risk that Volpe would be subject to abuse in prison.
December 14, 1999 at 12:00 AM
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It took two rulings under the federal sentencing guidelines to spare police officer Justin Volpe life in prison for his assault on Abner Louima in a Brooklyn police station in 1997.
When the disgraced former police officer was led into Judge Eugene Nickerson’s Eastern District courtroom yesterday, he faced a presentence probation report that calculated a total offense level under the guidelines of 46. Anything at or above level 43 meant life in prison.
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