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Mr. Hevesi's lawyer, Bradley D. Simon, had asked the judge, Lewis Bart Stone of State Supreme Court in Manhattan, to recuse himself from sentencing Mr. Hevesi because of a personal relationship the judge had with Mr. Simon's father.
Perhaps the most damning indictment of the status quo emerges from sentencing transcripts from around the state in which judges have periodically deplored the sentences the laws force them to impose.
In 1985 Mr. Lloyd's judge decried Michigan's lack of a death penalty, but its absence now appears to be all that prevented him from sentencing an innocent man to die.
In Las Vegas, a tearful Dokes apologized for his actions, but it wasn't enough to prevent District Judge John McGroarty from sentencing him up to 10 years in prison for an attack that left the victim's face so beaten that an arresting officer said he could not recognize her from a driver's license photo.
So, exonerations have so far not stopped states like Florida, that have seen the most exonerations, from sentencing comparatively more people to death.
Prosecutors had argued that the judge improperly deviated from sentencing guidelines that called for life in prison.
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