A Massachusetts psychiatrist convicted over an alleged scheme to import and dispense nonapproved forms of addiction medication on Thursday told the First Circuit the trial judge wrongly ran afoul of limitations on the consideration of acquitted conduct in federal sentencings when handing him a three-year prison term. Law360: (headline:(acquitted) OR summary:(acquitted) )

More than 100 former state attorneys general have signed on to an amici brief asking the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn former Alabama governor Don Siegelman’s six-and-a-half-year sentence for bribery, saying acquitted conduct should not be used to increase a criminal sentence as it was in Siegelman’s case. Law360: (headline:(acquitted) OR summary:(acquitted))

A divided Ninth Circuit on Tuesday ordered a lower court to resentence a man caught at the U.S.-Mexico border with 130 pounds of marijuana stashed in a truck, ruling the limited-English speaker was deprived of his right to an interpreter during a sentencing hearing. Law360: acquitted

The Fifth Circuit refused Thursday to disturb a 20-year prison sentence a lower court handed to the ex-mayor of a Louisiana city for allegedly taking bribes in exchange for government contracts, after the appeals court had vacated an earlier sentence. Law360: acquitted

A Chicago doctor convicted of accepting kickbacks in exchange for patient referrals as part of an elaborate scheme to defraud federal health programs at the city’s Sacred Heart Hospital appealed his three-month sentence to the Seventh Circuit on Wednesday. Law360: acquitted