| Man Successfully Pro Se
Appealed His Sex Trafficking
Sentence US Asks Same 216 Month
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
SDNY
COURTHOUSE,
April 16 – A man sentenced to
216 months in prison for a
2018 sex trafficking charge
has twice has twice won
appeals in the Second Circuit,
but still faces the 15 year
(180 month) minimum on April
17.
On direct
appeal his counsel challenged
venue as to Count One - but on
remand the judge found that
Count Two had been abandoned
on appeal. Then, pro se, he
appealed ineffective
assistance of appellate
counsel and won.
For
resentencing on April 17, he
has asked to appear remotely,
to avoid long travel -
sometimes called Diesel
Therapy -- and it was granted.
The US Attorney's
Office wrote in urging the
same 216 month sentence be
imposed, despite the two
appellate wins.
The case
is USA v. Purcell, 1:18-cr-81
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