How much consideration the judge gave to the letters when he sentenced the kids’ mother on Sept. 13 is not known. Federal judges don’t discuss cases they’ve presided over.

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A woman from Margate, Florida wrote judge Marianne Aho a letter to plea for leniency in sentencing for Gloria Williams. Williams will be sentenced on Friday for the 1998 kidnapping of newborn ...

Earlier this month, on the eve of the ABA Antitrust Spring Meeting, the Department of Justice Antitrust Division rolled out significant updates to its Leniency Program, most readily discernible ...

CHICAGO (AP) — More than 30 people have sent letters to a judge asking for leniency in the sentencing of a former Chicago Police commander convicted of lying about the ...

Don’t attack judges for showing leniency In a recent editorial, provocatively titled “The thief that got away,” The News harshly criticized federal Judge Richard Arcara for sentencing the ...