Court Opinion

ID: 9450756
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 16:56:45.609589+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:32:26.301705
License: Public Domain

MEDINA, Circuit Judge
(concurring and in part dissenting).
I agree with my brothers of the majority on all points except the sentence to a period of two years imprisonment. This, in my opinion, is too much. We have held that this Court has power to reduce the period of imprisonment meted out for a contempt of court, see United States v. Levine, 2 Cir. 1961, 288 F.2d 272, applying the unambiguous mandate of Brown v. United States, 1959, 359 U.S. 41, 52, 79 S.Ct. 539, 3 L.Ed.2d 609, and I would reduce appellant’s sentence to one year instead of two. I realize that this Court has upheld sentences of two years in similar cases, but I wish to register my dissent.