... the federal sentencing guidelines which, in my view, are too harsh and reflect the deficiencies in Frankel’s approach to sentencing. I advocate a system that relies less on laws of general application and confers more responsibility on judges to impose sentences they believe are fair. I am also critical...

...Joe D. Whitley In Fine Tuning the Guidelines – Again , the author revisits his recommendations on how to fine tune the federal sentencing guidelines that he offered twenty-seven years ago, and explores the ways in which the guidelines, first upheld by the Supreme Court in 1989, have impacted...

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...Zachary C. Bolitho It has been approximately seventeen years since the Supreme Court issued its landmark decision in United States v. Booker . In Booker , the Court transformed the Federal Sentencing Guidelines from mandatory to advisory. Nonetheless, the front-end of federal sentencing looks...

...Carolin E. Guentert; Ryan H. Gerber This article examines how Judge Jack B. Weinstein, who served as a federal district judge in the Eastern District of New York for 53 years, approached the issue of consistency in sentencing after the Federal Sentencing Guidelines were rendered advisory in United...

...Carolin E. Guentert; Ryan H. Gerber This article examines how Judge Jack B. Weinstein, who served as a federal district judge in the Eastern District of New York for 53 years, approached the issue of consistency in sentencing after the Federal Sentencing Guidelines were rendered advisory in United...

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... between the type of offender Congress intended to punish and those actually receiving the harsh punishment. Taken wholly, this article explains why child pornography guidelines represent a departure from the normal process of creating Federal Sentencing Guidelines; it tells how law succumbed to the forces...

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