A Trial Judge’s Reflections on Departures from the Federal Sentencing Guidelines

United States District Judge, Eastern District of New York

As part of this Issue dedicated to the Honorable Jack B. Weinstein (EDNY), we are pleased to reprint this article authored by Judge Weinstein. This article originally appeared in FSR Vol. 5, No. 1 at p. 6 (July/ August 1992)

This paper was originally drafted as notes for a discussion at the March 2, 1992 meeting of the Sentencing Institute for the Second and Eighth Circuits in Lexington, Kentucky.