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Article: Own words may haunt judge who embezzled; Prosecutors cite Amundson's 1991 decision as they make case for prison time.(NEWS)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- June 5, 2002
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Byline: Margaret Zack; Staff Writer
Hennepin County prosecutors argue in court papers that a former Appeals Court judge should serve more prison time than state guidelines recommend, in part because of his victim's vulnerability and the size of the crime.
Those are the exact factors that the former judge, Roland Amundson, cited in 1991 when he wrote an appellate decision upholding a sentence that was three times what state guidelines recommended for another person.
Amundson resigned from the Appeals Court one day before prosecutors charged him with stealing more than $300,000 from a trust fund he oversaw for a 31-year-old woman who has the ...