Legal Commentary

Whittling Away, But Leaving a Gap

By Jami Floyd

Today, in the front section of the New York Times, Adam Liptak has a fascinating, if discouraging, take on last week's flurry of long-overdue changes to the sentencing to this nation's federal sentencing guidelines. 

Liptak is the National Legal Correspondent for the Times and as such has watched the effect of the federal sentencing guidelines on real lives in real time for the better part of two decades.  His column takes a cold hard look at what impact last week's news may - or may not - have on the way we charge, prosecute and sentence in drug cases.

JFlo

Full post as published by Jami Floyd: Best Defense on December 17, 2007 (boomark / email).