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OPINION and ORDER Denying 2255 Relief (Amended)
P. 1OPINION and ORDER Denying 2255 Relief (Amended)OPINION and ORDER Denying 2255 Relief (Amended)Ratings: (0)|Views: 15|Likes: 0Published by D B Karron, PhDMore info:Categories:Types, Business/Law, Court FilingsPublished by: D B Karron, PhD on May 14, 2012Copyright:Attribution Non-commercialAvailability:Read on Scribd mobile: iPhone, iPad and Android.download as PDF, TXT or read online from ScribdFlag for inappropriate content|Add to collectionSee moreSee lesshttps://www.scribd.com/doc/93447452/OPINION-and-ORDER-Denying-2255-Relief-Amended07/30/2012pdftextoriginal 1UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURTSOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK-----------------------------------------------------------XDANIEL B. KARRON,07 Cr. 541 (RPP)11 Civ. 1874 (RPP)Petitioner,
AMENDEDOPINION AND ORDER
- v. -UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,Respondent.-----------------------------------------------------------X
On March 22, 2011, Petitioner Daniel B. Karron (“Karron” or “Petitioner”), pro se, fileda motion pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2255 to vacate, set aside, or correct her sentence arising fromher conviction at trial on a one count indictment, charging a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 666.Petitioner seeks to vacate her sentence on the grounds that (1) she received ineffective assistanceof counsel in violation of the Sixth Amendment of the United States Constitution; (2) theGovernment failed to disclose exculpatory evidence prior to trial in violation of Brady v.Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963); and (3) she is actually innocent based on newly discoveredevidence.
On May 21, 2008, the Government filed a one count superseding indictment(“Indictment”) against Petitioner, charging her with intentionally and knowingly misapplyingmore than $5,000 of federal funds owned by and under the care, custody, and control of Computer Aided Surgery, Inc. (“CASI”), a company at which Petitioner was the owner,President and Chief Technical Officer, (Trial Transcript (“Tr.”) at 107, 253, 624, 963), and thatCASI received more than $10,000 in federal funds during a one-year period, in violation of 18
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2U.S.C. § 666. After a ten-day jury trial ending on June 11, 2008, the jury convicted Karron of the single count in the Indictment. On October 27, 2008, Karron was sentenced to seven andone-half months home-confinement, followed by seven and one-half months imprisonment,followed by three years of supervised release, as well as $125,000 in restitution. (AmendedSentencing Judgment, Oct. 31, 2008, ECF No. 71.) On October 29, 2008, Karron appealed fromher judgment of conviction and on October 7, 2009, the Second Circuit affirmed the judgment of this Court. United States v. Karron, 348 Fed. App’x. 632 (2d Cir. 2009). On January 4, 2010,Karron filed a petition for certiorari in the United States Supreme Court, which was denied onFebruary 22, 2010. Karron v. United States, 130 S. Ct. 1555 (2010).Karron filed this § 2255 motion on February 22, 2011, and submitted a revisedaccompanying memorandum of law on April 28, 2011. (Petitioner’s Revised and ResubmittedMem. to Accompany Mot. to Vacate Criminal Verdict (“Pet’r Mem.”).) On July 16, 2011, theGovernment filed a memorandum in opposition to Karron’s § 2255 motion. (Gov’t Mem. inOpp. to Def.’s Mot. (“Gov’t Mem.”).) Karron filed a “corrected sur-reply” memorandum onDecember 2, 2011. (Corrected Sur-Reply Memorandum of Fact and Law (“Reply”).) TheGovernment filed its response to Karron’s “corrected sur-reply” on February 1, 2012. (Gov’tResp. to Def.’s Corrected Sur-Reply in Supp. of the § 2255 Mot. (“Gov’t Resp.”).)
In October 2001, CASI received a federal grant of $2 million, under the AdvancedTechnology Program (“ATP”), to be disbursed over the course of three years, designed tosupport high-risk scientific research (the “Grant”). (Gov’t Ex.’s 11, 13; Tr. at 56.) The NationalInstitute of Science and Technology (“NIST”), the U.S. Department of Commerce agency thatadministered the Grant, required grant recipients to follow spending-related “rules and
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3regulations,” including adherence to a NIST-approved budget (a detailed budget narrative thatspelled out the amount of money to be spent in each budget category) and a general prohibitionon using federal funds to pay for items or services not included within the approved budgetwithout written approval. (Tr. at 87, 265.) In addition, the Grant’s funding “principles,”included: (1) a prohibition on paying for “indirect costs,” i.e. overhead expenses that did notrelate to the research and (2) a prohibition on reimbursement for “sunk costs,” i.e. costs incurredbefore the start of the Grant period. (Id. at 88, 298.)Bettijoyce Lide (“Lide”), a NIST employee responsible for supervising the Grant, andHope Snowden (“Snowden”), a NIST employee responsible for reviewing CASI’s budgetsubmissions, each testified to advising Petitioner, both prior to and during the administration of the Grant, about the rules of adhering to the budget and the need for prior written approval forany change in budgeted expenses of over ten percent or changes in key personnel, the ruleagainst expenditure of Grant funds for “indirect costs,” and the rule against disbursement of Grant funds for “sunk costs.” (Id. at 88-89, 108-09, 257-59.) Despite repeated warnings from theNIST officials (Lide and Snowden) who administered the Grant, (id. at 122-23, 259), as well asseveral warnings to Petitioner from fellow CASI employees, (id. at 637-38, 840-42, 978-79),Petitioner used the money received from the ATP to pay pre-Grant rent as well as utilities, homerenovation expenses, restaurant meals, and miscellaneous household items during the Grantperiod, in violation of the Grant’s funding principles outlined above. (Gov’t Ex.’s 101, 110, 114,115). At trial, the Government presented testimony and evidence that it was Karron, the solesignatory on CASI’s bank accounts, (Tr. at 299-302), who misapplied the Grant funds (id. at638-39).In addition, Belinda Riley (“Riley”), an auditor for the U.S. Department of Commerce,
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