U.S. v. GUGLIELMI

No. 90-6809.

929 F.2d 1001 (1991)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Louis GUGLIELMI, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided April 11, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alan M. Dershowitz, Cambridge, Mass., argued (Harold J. Bender, Bender & Matus, Charlotte, N.C., Victoria B. Eiger, Nathan Z. Dershowitz, Dershowitz & Eiger, P.C., New York City, on brief), for defendant-appellant.

Thomas J. Ashcraft, U.S. Atty., Charlotte, N.C., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before ERVIN, Chief Judge, and MURNAGHAN and WILKINSON, Circuit Judges.


MURNAGHAN, Circuit Judge:

For a third time, we are called upon to review the imposition of an extremely substantial sentence flowing from a conviction on multiple counts of obscenity crimes predating the advent of the federal sentencing guidelines.1 Such review necessitates a most careful examination of the limitations the law places upon a federal appellate court's power to check the wide discretion accorded to federal district courts...

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