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Judge Hornby discusses "Speaking in Sentences"

By Douglas A. Berman

A helpful reader alerted me to this interesting piece in the Winter 2011 issue of The Green Bag by D. Brock Hornby, a District Judge on the United States District Court for the District of Maine. The work is titled "Speaking in Sentences," and it begins and ends this way: Federal judges sentencing offenders face-to-face. The proceedings showcase official power vividly and, sometimes, individual recalcitrance, repentance, outrage, compassion, sorrow, occasionally forgiveness ? profound human dimensions that cannot be captured in mere transcripts or statistics.  But while materials on federal Guidelines, statutory mandatory minimums, and sentencing data are voluminous, relatively little attention is paid to federal sentencing proceedings as they occur today...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on March 19, 2011 (boomark / email).