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Notable op-ed assails sentencing guidelines based on White acquitted conduct ruling

By Douglas A. Berman

I was pleased and intrigued to learn from a helpful reader about this potent new op-ed from a local Kentucky paper, headlined "No safety in numbers."  Here are excerpts: The recent decision by the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals upholding the 22-year sentence of Roger White, a getaway driver in a bank robbery, is yet another example of why it is time for Congress, and the states, to reconsider the wisdom of sentencing guidelines..... While determinate guideline sentencing has been praised by many as a cure-all for the problem of recidivism, many others view determinate sentencing as a 20-year mistake which has done nothing more than add to the already over-burdened prison system which in many states, including Kentucky, is teetering on the verge of collapse...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on January 05, 2009 (boomark / email).