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US District Court Southern District of New York: Amnesty USA v. Clapper Memo in Support of Motion for Summary Judgement
Case materials from the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) prosecution of Frederic Bourke Jr., United States v. Kozeny et al., No. 05-CR-518-SAS.
Order granting compassionate release: waiving exhaustion and granting compassionate release due to age, diabetes, hypertension, obesity; “When the Court sentenced Zukerman, the Court did not intend for that sentence to ‘include a great and unforeseen risk of severe illness or death’ brought on by a global pandemic.”
Order granting compassionate release to defendant with hypertension, sleep apnea, high blood pressure, and high cholesterol, who had served half his sentence despite the fact BOP had granted home detention because the required prison quarantine before release was a “dangerous set of conditions and Kafkaesque approach.”
Second Circuit Decision to Vacate and Remand Based on Sentence Higher than Guidelines for Illegal Reentry into the United States
Memorandum of National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and New York State Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers as Amici Curiae In Support of Defendant’s Motion to Dismiss the Indictment.
Joint amicus curiae brief of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, the New York State Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, and the New York Council of Defense Lawyers.
Brief of Amici Curiae [New York County Lawyers’ Association, New York State Defenders Association, New York State Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, National Association for Public Defense, National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers] in Support of Plaintiffs’ Motion Seeking Enforcement of this Court’s Orders, Modified Injunctive Relief, and a Finding of Civil Contempt.
