Others, who honestly cooperated with the security system and their remorsefulness have been proved, have been managed with intelligence direction against Americans.
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According to the assistant prosecutor on the case, the teen was consistent in the way he preyed upon these young girls, all from Livingston County—"he manipulated, he threatened, he bullied, he extorted, and he intimidated" each of the girls, she wrote, and then "feigned remorsefulness" in order to assault them again.
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The death sentenced was vacated in 2006 after a federal judge found that prosecutors withheld evidence during the penalty phase that would have bolstered Hammer's claim that he and Marti were having consensual sex. In July 2014, another federal judge concurred, ruling that life was appropriate sentence based upon multiple circumstances, including Hammer's acceptance of responsibility and remorsefulness, his extended family history of dysfunction, abuse and mental illness, his mental and emotional impairments and his self-improvement, specifically citing Hammer's writing to at-risk children counseling them against engaging in criminal conduct.
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In the view of the critic Helen C. White, probably no work of Southwell's is more "representative of his Baroque genius than the prose Marie Magdalens Funeral Teares, published late in 1591, close to the end of his career. The very choice of this subject would seem the epitome of the Baroque; for it is a commonplace that the penitent Magdalen, with her combination of past sensuality and current remorsefulness, was a favourite object of contemplation to the Counter-Reformation."White, Helen C. "Southwell: Metaphysical and Baroque", Modern Philology, Vol. 61, No. 3 (February 1964): 159–168.
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On December 27, 2005, the district court vacated Hammer's death sentence and set aside his conviction based upon the government hiding favorable evidence that supported Hammer's defenses. Back in court, on July 17, 2014, U.S. District Judge Joel Slomsky resentenced Hammer to life imprisonment without possibility of parole. Judge Slomsky found multiple circumstances warranting a sentence less than death, including Hammer's acceptance of responsibility and remorsefulness, his extended family history of dysfunction, abuse and mental illness, his mental and emotional impairments, and his self-improvement. Judge Slomsky also identified Hammer's medical diagnoses - “diabetes mellitus, type II [high blood sugar requiring insulin dependency], diabetic polyneuropathy [the gradual destruction of nerve sensations, especially in the extremities], diabetic retinopathy [scarring of the retina], and/or diabetic macular edema [release of retinal blood into the vitreous fluid in the eye, blocking vision to the point of legal blindness]” - and Hammer's charitable contributions during his 9 years on death row and his correspondence with at-risk children counseling them against engaging in criminal conduct.
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