U.S. v. SCOTT

No. 18-163 August Term, 2018.

954 F.3d 74 (2020)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellant, v. Gerald SCOTT, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: March 31, 2020.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

WON S. SHIN , Assistant United States Attorney ( Sarah K. Eddy , Catherine E. Ghosh , Assistant United States Attorneys), for Geoffrey S. Berman , United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, NY, for Appellant.

MATTHEW B. LARSEN , Assistant Federal Defender, Federal Defenders of New York, Inc., New York, NY, for Defendant-Appellee.

Judge Raggi dissents in a separate opinion.


The United States appeals from an opinion and order of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Laura T. Swain, J.) vacating Gerald Scott's sentence and resentencing him to time served based on his service of only eleven years of imprisonment. The district court held that because New York...

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