DETROIT — The Michigan judge who sentenced sports doctor Larry Nassar to 40 years in prison made "wholly inappropriate" remarks about him, but they weren t enough to violate his rights and upset the punishment for sexual assault, the state appeals court said Tuesday.In a 2-1 decision, the court noted that Judge Rosemarie Aquilina still stuck to the sentencing agreement made by prosecutors and Nassar s attorneys.Judge Douglas Shapiro disagreed with the majority and said Nassar deserved to
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Judge s Inappropriate Nassar Comments Don t Nix Sentence
Law360 (December 23, 2020, 8:35 PM EST) A split Michigan state appellate court turned down a resentencing bid from convicted sexual abuser and former sports doctor Larry Nassar, finding Tuesday that while the lower court judge made wholly inappropriate comments in sentencing him to up to 175 years in prison, she did not show bias.
During Nassar s sentencing in January 2018, Judge Rosemarie Aquilina stated that if cruel and unusual punishment were allowed under the U.S. Constitution, she would allow someone or many people to do to him what he did to others, and said, I ve just signed your death warrant, as she handed down the sentence, set.
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Larry Nassar denied new sentencing judge by Court of Appeals
criticized
Ingham County Circuit Judge Rosemarie Aquilina s conduct during his sentencing.
In a 22-page opinion, a three-judge panel split 2-1 against Nassar s effort to be resentenced by a new judge,
with two judges writing that
Nassar admitted guilt, received a fair sentence and Aquilina did not show bias.
All three judges were
troubled by some comments Aquilina made about Nassar, calling some of her statements wholly inappropriate, while adding that inflammatory hyperbole has no place in a sentencing hearing, and due process entitles a defendant to (an) impartial and disinterested decisionmaker. But two judges ruling in the majority nuanced their critiques with context.
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DETROIT: The Michigan judge who sentenced sports doctor Larry Nassar to 40 years in prison made “wholly inappropriate” remarks about him, but they weren t enough to violate his rights and upset the punishment for sexual assault, the state appeals court said Tuesday (Dec 22).
In a 2-1 decision, the court noted that Judge Rosemarie Aquilina still stuck to the sentencing agreement made by prosecutors and Nassar s attorneys.
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Judge Douglas Shapiro disagreed with the majority and said Nassar deserved to return to court in front of a different judge.