Richard Francis Della Fera

Richard Della Fera

Dear “Anonymous”: I see you’ve chosen to post a negative review in 2019 even though your case and sentence for defrauding the U.S. Military concluded years ago. As you well know, our disagreements stemmed from the fact that you continually refused to acknowledge the overwhelming evidence against you. You were not convicted on evidence that I did not request; you were convicted on your own admissions of guilt along with the incriminating chat logs you voluntary gave to the investigating government agents before your arrest and long before I was court-appointed to represent you. You must have forgotten that we had hours and hours of telephone conferences and in-person meetings and exchanged dozens of emails. I told the judge to get you a new lawyer because we kept going around and around in circles. Also, the court record clearly proves that I did file a motion to dismiss on statute of limitations grounds in the district court and then appealed the denial to the circuit court. See 790 F.3d 1196 (11th Cir. 2015). Contrary to your assertions, there are no 11th Circuit or Supreme Court precedents that supported dismissal. You also fail to mention that I filed a downward departure motion at sentencing that was granted, thus resulting in significantly less time than that called for under the federal sentencing guidelines. In sum, your account as to what occurred in your case is completely false and I did the very best anyone possibly could have given the facts of the case and the state of the law. Finally, as to your gratuitous insults against me, they only go to prove the old saying that when a man has no real arguments, he resorts to personal attacks.