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Litigation

Apr. 10, 2013

Judge denies former OC sheriff's resentencing request

Michael S. Carona has lost a bid to have his 51/2-year federal prison sentence reduced on the grounds the Supreme Court has since redefined a crime that figured in the 2009 sentencing calculation.

By Don J. DeBenedictis
Daily Journal Staff Writer

Former Orange County Sheriff Michael S. Carona has lost his bid to have his 51/2-year federal prison sentence reduced. U.S. District Judge Andrew J. Guilford ruled Friday that he would not reduce Carona's 2009 sentence even though the U.S. Supreme Court sharply narrowed the definition of a crime - honest services fraud - that figured in the sentencing calculation.

"The Court specifically made a factual finding in 2009...

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