A complaint about the weight given to adverse media publicity as a mitigating factor in sentencing is not a ground of specific error but can only be considered under a manifest excess ground. In social security fraud cases, general deterrence and denunciation remain the primary sentencing considerations, and personal mitigating factors including adverse media publicity are subsidiary to those purposes.
The full text is available to signed-in members, including the 14 later cases that cite this judgment.
2 of the 14 citing cases carry a classified treatment. How each court treated it is available to signed-in members.