Analysis by KenDilanianNBC: Manafort sentence highlights unequal treatment of poor, minority defendants.
—a sharp downward departure from guidelines that called for up to 24 years—is being viewed by legal experts as a glaring example of unusual treatment. It highlights the disparate punishments meted out to poor defendants of color, but it's also an outlier even by the standards of similar white collar schemes, experts say.
"That was unprecedented,"said Joyce Vance, a former U.S. Attorney in Alabama."Most white collar defendants, whether or not they are actually repentant, are typically smart enough to tell the court how sorry they are."Judge Ellis even told Manafort before passing sentence that he"was surprised I did not hear you express regret."
Ellis noted that"the law is very clear that in sentencing, a court must consider the entire individual, not just the individual and his crime-committing activities." But special counsel Robert Mueller's office said in its own sentencing memo that no case really compared. Reacting to the news, defense lawyers contrasted Manafort's sentence with those of their own less privileged clients. And legal experts saw a larger theme of injustice.
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