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· 7/23/2010

United States v. Caracappa

Citations

  • 614 F.3d 30
  • 2010 U.S. App. LEXIS 15155
  • 2010 WL 2884970

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • \Monday-morning quarterbacking is not a sport encouraged by the laws governing ineffective assistance claims.\
  • barring a second claim alleging identical acts of negligence resulting in the same “single injury”
  • “Monday-morning quarterbacking is not a sport encouraged by the laws governing ineffective assistance claims.” (quoting United States v. Eppolito, 436 F. Supp. 2d 532, 564 (E.D.N.Y. 2006))
  • affirming 80-year sentence for drug trafficking offenses integral to broader pattern of criminal conduct
  • efforts made to cure the misconduct considered when determining whether misconduct amounts to prejudicial error
  • “[I]n a 13 noncapital case, it is exceedingly rare to uphold a claim that a sentence within the 14 statutory limits is disproportionately severe.” (internal quotation marks omitted)

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Judges: Kearse, Sack, Wesley

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