WASHINGTON - June 1, 2009 - The high court on Monday refused to hear an appeal from Gerard
Cavera, an Army veteran in his 70s who got six months more than
federal sentencing guidelines recommended for being an illegal gun
dealer.
Judge /*Sonia Sotomayor*/, who last week was nominated to the high
court, took issue with her colleagues on the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court
of Appeals who upheld the sentence. Sotomayor said in a lengthy
dissent that only in rare instances should trial judges set prison
terms that are outside the federal guidelines.
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