1.0 link 228619 <![CDATA[Sotomayor Was Tougher Than Colleagues On White Collar Crime]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/09/sotomayor-was-tougher-tha_n_228619.html WASHINGTON &mdash; High court nominee Sonia Sotomayor typically handed out tougher prison sentences than her colleagues in the federal courthouse in Manhattan, especially to white-collar criminals, a new study says.

Nearly half the people Sotomayor sentenced for financial fraud and other white-collar crimes received at least 6 months in prison, according to an analysis released Thursday by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University.

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