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Longer sentence not justified by defendant’s misconduct

A federal judge in St. Louis didn’t have the right to double the sentence imposed on the owner of a payroll services company, despite what the judge characterized as “fraud on the court.” On Monday, the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed U.S. District Judge Rodney W. Sippel’s decision to vacate Angela Smiley’s original ...

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