U.S. v. COHEN

No. 365, Docket 95-1540.

99 F.3d 69 (1996)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Stuart R. COHEN, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided October 24, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David A. Lewis, Legal Aid Society, Federal Defender Division Appeals Bureau, New York City, for Defendant-Appellant.

Leonard Lato, Asst. U.S. Atty., E.D.N.Y., Brooklyn, NY (Zachary W. Carter, U.S. Atty., David C. James, Peter A. Norling, Asst. U.S. Attys., of counsel), for Appellee.

Before MESKILL, CALABRESI, and CABRANES, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM:

The question presented in this case is whether the Violent Crime Control & Law Enforcement Act of 1994, P.L. 103-322, 108 Stat. 1796, 2095-96, amended 18 U.S.C. § 3553 so as to make policy statements in Chapter 7 of the United States Sentencing Guidelines binding on sentencing courts. We find that it did not.

On June 11, 1993, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York (Spatt, J.) entered judgment after...

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