Tonight the able AUSAs have weighed in, with revised suggestions, for USDC Judge Swain, in Manhattan, on Aimee Harris’s sentence.
They are revised, because for now more than a dozen times, she has failed to abide by federal criminal court orders. Including at least five failures to appear.
Now April 9 will presumably be the end of the line — and these six pages set out how little respect she’s shown for the weight of the federal plea she entered almost two years ago.
Here’s the upshot: the new recommendation includes real incarceration, for 4 to 10 months — followed by three years of close supervision, thus:
…At bottom, the defendant’s flagrant disrespect for the law, including the orders of this Court — even after pleading guilty in this case — demonstrates an abdication of responsibility for her conduct and strongly militates for an incarceratory sentence. In particular, the defendant has shown to be completely unamenable to court supervision such that a sentence involving merely probation will not be sufficient to deter the defendant from continuing to flout the law.
Moreover, a sentence involving no period of incarceration would be wholly insufficient to reflect the gravity of the defendant’s conduct, including her apparent belief that she is above the law and that she need not comply with this Court’s orders. A Guidelines sentence involving a period of incarceration, by contrast, would send the message that breaking the law and then failing to abide with the orders of the Court during the pendency of a criminal case will not be tolerated and will have serious consequences. For all these reasons, the Court should impose a sentence within the applicable Guidelines range….
For the reasons set forth above, the Court should impose a sentence of 4 to 10 months’ imprisonment, to be followed by three years of supervised release….
Here’s to hoping Judge Swain shows Harris… who’s boss, on the 9th.
Prison is absolutely appropriate here.
Onward.
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