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Suspect in jail for 6 months now objects to delay in sentencing
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Posted on Feb 01 2012
The U.S. Probation Office has asked the federal court to delay the sentencing of a man who was found guilty of trying to sneak aboard a Los Angeles-bound flight using fake documents but the suspect objected because he’s been in jail for more than six months now, when the maximum recommended sentence is only six months.
U.S. Probation Officer Margarita D. Wonenberg filed Tuesday a request for the U.S. District Court for the NMI to reschedule Dongjun Li’s sentencing from Feb. 3 to Feb. 15 to allow the probation officer to respond to Li’s objections filed on Jan. 25 and 27, 2012.
Li, through counsel Mark A. Scoggins, objected yesterday to rescheduling the sentencing.
Scoggins said his client has been in the U.S. Marshal Service’s custody since July 15, 2011, and has been in jail for more than six months already.
If sentencing is further delayed, Li will have been in custody for seven months by the time he is sentenced, Scoggins said.
“Under Mr. Li’s interpretation of the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines, he has already served longer than the maximum recommended sentence of six months,” the lawyer said.
Scoggins also objected to the tardiness of the presentence investigation report filed by the U.S. Probation Office. He said the lateness of the report was among their objections presented to the U.S. Probation Office.
Li, a Chinese national, was found guilty in October of immigration fraud and false statement. The document fraud was related to Li’s possession and use of fake parole documents when he tried to check in for a trip to California on July 15, 2011, at the Saipan International Airport.
