WisBar Court Review: Court Addressed Mitigation Argument by Acknowledging Risk to Transgender Woman:

A federal district court considered a defendant’s mitigation argument when it sentenced her to 18 months in prison, including the potential risk of violence against her as a transgender woman, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit has ruled.

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