Court Documents: Sentencing submissions in Daniel Sikkema case
Court documents from the sentencing of Daniel Sikkema, filed October 2026 in Manhattan federal court.
This page hosts the sentencing documents in United States v. Daniel Sikkema in the Southern District of New York, along with the U.S. Attorney’s Office press release announcing his life sentence on November 4, 2026.
It includes the government’s October 28 sentencing letter and four victim impact statements, two of them translated from Portuguese by prosecutors.
It also includes the defense’s October 15 sentencing letter and the letters of support the defense filed on October 27 from Sikkema’s relatives and friends. Some of those letters are handwritten or in Spanish.
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