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Yvonne Hall\u2019s supervised release<\/a> was revoked and sentenced to 36 months imprisonment. Resentencing is now scheduled after Yvonne Hall’s judge made inappropriate religious comments at sentencing.The following exchange between the judge and the defendant took place at sentencing:<\/p>\r\n

Have you ever picked up the Bible?<\/p>\r\n

Yvonne Hall : Yes, I have.<\/p>\r\n

Court: What have you done with it?<\/p>\r\n

Yvonne Hall : I mean, I read it. It’s nothing\u2014I don’t think it’s a spiritual thing.<\/p>\r\n

…<\/p>\r\n

Court: And I’m going to sentence you to 36 months’ custody …. But I just wish that you would give yourself time to reflect on the self, that you have turned into a demon and you’ve known it. You’re not sick. You’ve turned yourself into a demon and you need not have done that.<\/p>\r\n

The Eleventh Circuit reversed, finding \u201cthe court’s colloquy with Yvonne Hall makes clear that its sentencing<\/a> decision was substantially affected by the consideration of religion.\u201d According to the court, \u201creligion was a focal point of the colloquy, and the court, in explaining its sentencing decision, twice called Hall a \u201cdemon,\u201d thus indicating that its \u201cimposition of a lengthy prison term … reflected the fact that its own sense of religious propriety had somehow been betrayed.\u201d The case was remanded for re-sentencing. United States v. Yvonne Hall <\/a>, No. 15-15096\u00a0(11th Cir. 2017).<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yvonne Hall\u2019s supervised release was revoked and sentenced to 36 months imprisonment. Resentencing is now scheduled after Yvonne Hall’s judge made inappropriate religious comments at sentencing.The following exchange between the judge and the defendant took place at sentencing: Have you ever picked up the Bible? Yvonne Hall : Yes, I have. Court: What have you…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1661,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[314],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nUnited States v. Yvonne Hall | Resentencing | Personal Religious Bias<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"United States v. 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