This motion comes roughly two weeks after these layers, Malaika Ramsey-Heath and Jacqueline McCann, filed to have Nassar resentenced in Ingham County, Michigan after it was revealed that he was physically assaulted in prison within hours of his release into the general population of the prison where he is currently serving the first of the three lengthy prison sentences that he was issued between this past December and this past February.
Nassar’s lawyers have now appealed all three of the prison sentences that he was issued during this two-month span.
Nassar was sentenced to between 40 and 125 years in state prison by Judge Janice Cunningham in Eaton County, Michigan this past February. He was issued this sentence on three sexual assault charges following a three-day sentencing hearing during which 65 victim impact statements were delivered in front of him in court by people who accused him of sexual assault.
Here is what Nassar’s lawyers had to say in regard to why he should be resentenced in Eaton County and by someone other than Judge Cunningham, according to The Detroit News.
They added the following, according to the Lansing State Journal.
The prison sentence that was issued to Nassar in Eaton County was the third overall prison sentence and second state prison sentence that he was issued. This past December, he was sentenced to 60 years in federal prison by U.S. District Judge Janet Neff. He was issued this prison sentence, which he is currently serving at United States Penitentiary, Tucson in Tucson, Arizona, on three child pornography charges.
Then in January, Nassar was issued his second prison sentence and his first state prison sentence. Judge Rosemarie Aquilina sentenced him to between 40 and 175 years in state prison in Ingham County, Michigan on seven sexual assault charges following a seven-day sentencing hearing during which 169 victim impact statements were delivered in front of him in court, including 156 that were read by those who accused him of sexual assault.
A hearing on the most recent motion filed by Nassar’s lawyers is scheduled for Thursday, September 6 at 1:30 p.m. ET.
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