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Lots and lots of notable new proposed priorities from US Sentencing Commission

By Douglas A. Berman

The US Sentencing Commission has now posted here its "notice of proposed priorities and request for public comment ... for the amendment cycle ending May 1, 2010."  Unlike in prior years in which the USSC seemed to be acting as if Booker never happened, this latest set of proposed priorities is much more modern.  Federal sentencing fans should check out all the proposed priorities, but these proposals seem especially notable and valuable: Continuation of its work on federal sentencing policy with the congressional, executive, and judicial branches of the government, and other interested parties, in light of United States v. Booker and subsequent Supreme Court decisions, possibly including (A) an evaluation of the impact of those decisions on the federal sentencing guideline system; (B) development of amendments to the federal sentencing guidelines; (C) development of recommendations for legislation regarding federal sentencing policy; (D) a study of, and possible report to Congress on, statutory mandatory minimum penalties, including a review of the operation of the ?safety valve? provision at 18 U...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on June 18, 2009 (boomark / email).