NEW YORK — Lawyers for convicted Columbia University gynecologist Robert Hadden on Thursday asked a judge not to throw the book at him when he’s sentenced later this month.
Hadden, who was found guilty by a jury in January of enticing patients from out of state to abuse in medical settings, says he has paid for his crimes and should serve no more than three years.
His federal public defender Deirdre von Dornum said the Manhattan U.S. attorney’s office had disregarded his role as the primary caretaker of his disabled wife and son in asking the court to impose an above-guidelines sentence of a “staggering” 25 years.
