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Seventh Circuit Vacates Sentence Because Sentencing Judge Should Have Recused Himself Due to Ex Parte Communications with U.S. Attorney’s Office

Loaded on Dec. 18, 2019 by Douglas Ankney published in Criminal Legal News January, 2020, page 34
Filed under: Judicial Misconduct. Location: United States of America.

by Douglas Ankney

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit vacated the sentence of James Atwood because Judge Colin S. Bruce should have recused himself before imposing a sentence on Atwood because of Bruce’s ex parte communications with the prosecuting U.S. Attorney’s Office.

Atwood appeared before Bruce for ...

 

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