According to the news story, the judge who passed the sentence decided to *not* follow judicial guidelines so far as meting out punishments go. One wonders, is this indicative of one law-person's sympathy for the Coca Cola company leadership?
The relevant excerpt: ' "This is the kind of offense that cannot be tolerated in our society," U.S. District Judge J. Owen Forrester said in imposing sentence.
A co-defendant, Ibrahim Dimson, was sentenced to 5 years in prison.
Forrester's sentence for Williams was more severe than the 63- to 78-month sentence recommended by federal prosecutors and federal sentencing guidelines.
He said the seriousness of the crime necessitated a departure from the guidelines, which federal judges are not bound by. '
The assistant US attorney felt the same way too.
Anyway, I also did a Google search of defendant Joya Williams; the corporate spy story has been reported for almost a year now. See this Time report: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1211565,00.html
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