Opinion: Manafort’s sentence last week was absurd. That shouldn’t matter Wednesday.
Paul Manafort is scheduled to be sentenced by U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson on Wednesday. By Harry Litman Harry Litman Contributing columnist focused on legal issues Bio Follow Contributing columnist March 12 at 4:46 PM U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson is set to sentence Paul Manafort on Wednesday in federal court in Washington. Look for her to play it by the book ― which is precisely the opposite of what U.S. District Judge T.S.
The range that Ellis concluded was excessive reflected a consensus judgment by the federal sentencing commission to calculate sentences in such financial fraud cases based on the amount of money the victims lost; in Manafort’s case, the figure exceeded $10 million. Even a plainly guilty defendant, as Manafort surely was, still has three ways to serve society so as to properly lower his fair sentence.
Third, a guilty defendant is often in a position to help bring confederates to justice by cooperating with the prosecution. It’s a painful position — no one likes to be a “rat,” to use a word Trump seems to favor. But again it’s one of the few ways a guilty defendant can serve the greater good, and the reward for that can take the form of a dramatically reduced sentence.
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