He agreed to forfeit $900,000 in ill-gotten gains from an insider-trading scheme and said he would not challenge a sentence of 30 to 37 months in prison.
But in accordance with federal sentencing guidelines for someone with no prior criminal record, the prosecutors said they would not challenge a sentence of six months or less.
Mr. Glover has argued that he is entitled to a new sentencing hearing because his lawyer failed to challenge a sentence that was up to 21 months longer than he should have received.
Rather, the "problem arises when the procedural default rule does not allow the detained individual to challenge a conviction and sentence by claiming..
Under Supreme Court precedents, a suspension at other times may nonetheless be permissible as long as adequate alternate procedures exist for challenging a conviction or sentence.
Marcus Robinson, who has been on death row in North Carolina since 1994, was the first person to challenge a death sentence under the state's 2009 Racial Justice Act.
By his test, the prisoner challenging a death sentence might prevail only by proving that his particular jury was motivated by racial bias.
This spring, in the first case challenging a death sentence under the act, Superior Court Judge Gregory Weeks issued a 167-page opinion finding that Marcus Robinson, a death row inmate, was the victim of clear discrimination in jury selection.
He was sentenced last year to 10 years in jail, a fine of 1 million riyals ($267,000) and 1,000 lashes after prosecutors challenged an earlier sentence of seven years and 600 lashes as too lenient.
When he died suddenly, of a heart attack, he was still challenging a two-year suspended sentence for misappropriation of public funds.
