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What does the future hold for the US Sentencing Commission?

By Douglas A. Berman

I just learned today that the Senate Judiciary Committee, at a hearing scheduled for tomorrow will be considering the executive nomination of "William B. Carr, Jr., to be Member of the United States Sentencing Commission."   It is my understanding that Mr. Carr has been nominated to replace Commission John Steer, who apparently has already official resigned from the USSC after distinguished service for more than two decades with the judicial agency.  (Disappointingly, I cannot find any official announcement of Commissioner Steer's retirement, but this list of Commissioners dated June 2008 does not have his name listed.) News of this notable transition on the USSC has me wondering again what's on tap for the Commission...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on July 22, 2008 (boomark / email).