DC Circuit panel upholds January 12 execution date for only woman on federal death row
Just before Christmas, as noted in this post, a federal district judge vacated an order from the director of the Bureau of Prisons that had set Lisa Montgomery’s execution date for January 12. But, on New Year s Day, a DC Circuit panel issued this order putting the execution back on track. This CNN article about the ruling provides some context:
Montgomery s execution had been scheduled for December 8, but a judge postponed it after her attorneys said they were diagnosed with Covid-19 after flying from Texas to visit with Montgomery at the Federal Correctional Complex in Terre Haute, Indiana.
The Graham County Health Department has distributed roughly half of its initial batch of 600 COVID-19 vaccines.
Graham County Health Department Director Brian Douglas said some of the doses were given to Mt. Graham Regional Medical Center for dissemination amongst its staff, but the health department has been administering doses to other health care and long-term care workers personally. Long-term care residents have also been getting the vaccine.
âWeâll be ordering our second shipment in the next couple of weeks and it will only take a couple of days to arrive,â Douglas said.
By that time, Douglas said he suspects the health department will be ready to start vaccinating the next in line for the shot under U.S. Centers for Disease Control guidelines â law enforcement officers, teachers and school staff members and âessentialâ workers like those who work for oil, gas, electric and water utility companies.
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Drug conviction yields federal prison sentence for OOB resident
Supervised release to follow 6 1/2 year sentence.
PORTLAND An Old Orchard Beach man was recently sentenced to serve 6 1/2 years in
An Old Orchard Beach resident was sentenced at U.S. District Court in Portland Dec. 15 to 6 1/2 years in federal prison on a drug conviction.
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federal prison in connection with a guilty plea to a drug charge.
Chief U.S. District Judge Jon D. Levy sentenced Aboubacar Congo, 32, on Dec. 15. He pleaded guilty to a charge of conspiracy to distribute and possession with the intent to distribute cocaine and fentanyl in September 2019. A second charge of possession with intent to distribute, along with a charge of maintaining drug-involved premises was dismissed by the court.
Cohen believes he deserves early release from home confinement
By Associated Press article
Michael Cohen, the former personal attorney to President Donald Trump, speaks to the media before departing his Manhattan apartment for prison on May 6, 2019 in New York City. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
NEW YORK (AP) - Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s former lawyer, says he deserves early release from home confinement but federal authorities refuse to credit him for good behavior and hundreds of hours of work and prison courses completed behind bars. Cohen filed court papers Monday contending he could be eligible for release in a matter of weeks or months under the First Step Act, a sweeping criminal justice reform Trump signed into law in 2018.