Study Says Sotomayor Is Tough On White-Collar Criminals
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Study Says Sotomayor Is Tough On White-Collar Criminals
A new study says U.S. Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor is tough on white-collar criminals.
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WASHINGTON (July 9, 2009)--A new study says high court nominee Sonia Sotomayor typically handed out tougher prison sentences than her colleagues in the federal courthouse in Manhattan, especially to white-collar criminals.

The study, released Thursday, says that nearly half the people Sotomayor sentenced for financial fraud and other white-collar crimes received at least 6 months in prison.

Roughly one out of three white-collar convicts received similarly lengthy prison terms from the other trial judges in the Southern District of New York, the study found.

Sotomayor served as a trial judge from 1992 to 1998, when she joined the federal appeals court in New York.

The analysis is from the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University.


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Posted by: William Location: Salado on Jul 9, 2009 at 09:58 PM

You got that right Billy Bob, she is a typical Dumbocrat Obomite.
Posted by: Billy Bob Location: Central Texas on Jul 9, 2009 at 01:19 PM

That's because her favorite Latinos never commit white collar crimes! We all know she is an anti-White nut!
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