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USSC proposes latest priorities and requests public comments

By Douglas A. Berman

The US Sentencing Commission on its website has now posted here its "Federal Register Notice of proposed priorities and request for public comment." The USSC's homepage explains that as "part of its statutory authority and responsibility to analyze sentencing issues, including operation of the federal sentencing guidelines, ... the Commission is seeking comment on possible priority policy issues for the amendment cycle ending May 1, 2009." The USSC's notice says that "public comment should be received on or before September 8, 2008." The notice also lists an intriguing set of "tentative priorities," which include: "a study of statutory mandatory minimum penalties"; "consideration of alternatives to incarceration"; a "multi-year study of the definition of 'crime of violence' used in both statutes and guidelines" I hope readers will use the comments to get the public comments that the USSC seeks off to a running start.continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on August 11, 2008 (boomark / email).