Ducan Fanfan of Booker/Fanfan fame was origianlly sentenced to 6 1/2 and after years of appeals ultimately ended up in the Supreme Court. The now famous Booker/Fanfan decision has helped many inmates and offenders with lighter, more reasonable and factually sound sentences. Unfortunately, it didnt help Mr. Fanfan. Upon resentencing after remand from the US Supreme Court, they handed him 17 1/2 years. Ouch.

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http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/news/state/050525court.shtml

Is That Considered Retalliation?

Hard to say, but Judge Hornby is a pretty well respected judge with a reputation for integrity, fairness and candor---but a reputation for giving our pretty stiff sentences.

Please note that originally Judge Hornby sentenced him to 6.5 years indicating that he felt a higher sentence was in order based on all the facts--but he was limited by Blakely and couldn't exercise discretion and couldn't use facts not found be a jury to enhance a sentence. The government appealed and the Booker case, which was just the opposite, was already up on appeal was consolidated in the Supreme Court.

It tells me that fate is indeed fickle. Poor guy does so much good, but gets tacked with 11 more years. I'm sorry....that stings.

how utterly ironic. I hope he can gain some comfort from being part of history!

Note that Fanfan himself did not appeal the sentence.

The government did.

abner

Poor Fanfan :( But as another poster said, he is part of history now! Just to bad his sentence went up.:(