Edward Brown Constitution Ranger – Part I – The Appeal
The court concluded that while being elderly is generally a mitigating circumstance for sentencing, that is because it typically reduces a person’s dangerousness and risk of recidivism. But Brown’s history and current statements and behavior belie those statistics in his particular case. As a result, while the judge might well have imposed a lesser sentence at resentencing, it was not unreasonable that he chose not to.
Federal Prosecutors Coming Down Hard On Abusive Conservation Easement Promoters
Syndicated Conservation Easement (SCE) products aren’t produced in vacuums. there are teams of people constructing and assembling a variety of documents that support each fund’s capital raise. In the past, if one of those procedural links failed it was treated independently from the others. What this conspiracy case tells us is moving forward, is that each link infects the link it touches. That the whole chain will be viewed as corrupt.
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Over and over again courts have said that there is nothing sinister in so arranging one’s affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible. Everybody does so, rich or poor; and all do right, for nobody owes any public duty to pay more than the law demands: taxes are enforced exactions, not voluntary contributions. To demand more in the name of morals is mere cant.