Case Remanded for Sentencing Based on Finding of Disease-Based Disorder
Author: Staff Editors.
Source: Volume 20, Number 04, June/July 2019 , pp.64-64(1)
< previous article |next article > |return to table of contents
Abstract:
Federal law permits a review of any legally valid sentence, and in U.S. v. Zuk, 874 F.3d 398, the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals was asked to review the reasonableness of a lower court sentence of “time served” for a defendant, largely on the basis of a diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder. As the sentence was far more lenient than the vast majority of those convicted of the crime receive, the government appealed the sentence successfully.Keywords: Child Pornography; Autism as Mitigating Factor
Affiliations:
1: Sex Offender Law Report.