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: Sentencing Law and Policy

A couple new federal sentences making Madoff's sentence seem short

By Douglas A. Berman

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There was a lot of talk after Bernie Madoff was given a sentence of 150 years in prison about whether this huge number was silly and pernicious because there was no way Madoff could live long enough to serve even a significant portion of this term.  Perhaps the same concerns should be raised with two new sentences recently imposed in federal court as detailed in these stories: Robbery convict gets 386-year federal prison term Baxter drug dealer gets 325-year sentence

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on July 16, 2009 (boomark / email).

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