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Court Cannot Reduce Federal Prison Sentence Due to Illness

Loaded on Aug. 15, 2008

Filed under: Cancer, Blood, Sentencing. Location: New York.

The plaintiff was diagnosed with leukemia after being sentenced to a year in prison. The court has no authority to modify his sentence to let him serve it at home. The diagnosis does not constitute newly discovered evidence that would entitle him to a new trial. He has no deliberate ...

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