The following excerpt is from United States v. Shellef, Docket No. 11-876-cr (2nd Cir. 2013):
retrospective findings of impracticality to safeguard against the risk, noted in United States v. Tunnesson, 763 F.2d 74 (2d Cir. 1985), that district courts will "simply rationalize [their] action[s] long after the fact, in order to cure an unwitting violation of the Act," id. at 78. This argument is unpersuasive for several reasons.
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