THE ROBING ROOM

I did my first criminal sentencing in 1989. 17 years later and many judges, both federal and state, I had a client sentenced by this judge. I have never dealt with a judge with such an absence of compassion and fairness. Despite an agreement between client and government that 51 months was a reasonable sentence, which Probation concurred with, she imposed 90 months. She did so without compunction and by totally ignoring any mitigating factors and arguments. In fact, she seemed irritated that I argued for my client and impatient to get to a result that she had predetermined, despite my lengthy sentencing brief and additional argument. A truly lamentable choice for a judge, she'd have been better suited to working as an executioner.