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Will Senator Ted Stevens soon be thinking extra hard about sentencing laws he helped pass?

By Douglas A. Berman

As detailed in this Washington Post report, a federal jury in DC "today will begin deliberating two conflicting views of Senator Ted Stevens, the powerful Alaska Republican charged with lying on financial disclosure forms to hide more than $250,000 in gifts and renovations to the Alaska house."  The outcome of these jury deliberations will decide, of course, whether Senator Stevens has to give serious thought to federal sentencing realities.  It's probably inappropriate for me to already start speculating about the kind of sentence he might be facing, but it is so much fun. Senator Stevens' long service in the US Senate adds an interesting and historic twist to this case.  To my knowledge, Senator Stevens could become the only person who has voted on every major piece of modern federal crime legislation to be subject to the federal sentencing consequences of all those votes...continue to full post

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