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: Sentencing Law and Policy

Potent new district court opinion assailing mandatory minimum sentencing

By Douglas A. Berman

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Thanks to this post at the Second Circuit Sentencing Blog, I just learned about the potent opinion issued last week by US District Judge John Gleeson in United States v. Vasquez, No. 09-CR-259 (E.D.N.Y. March 30, 2010) (available for download below).  The opinion is a must-read for various reasons, as these opening and closing paragraphs suggest: When people think about miscarriages of justice, they generally think big, especially in this era of DNA exonerations, in which wholly innocent people have been released from jail in significant numbers after long periods in prison.  As disturbing as those case are, the truth is that most of the time miscarriages of justice occur in small doses, in cases involving guilty defendants.  This makes them easier to overlook...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on April 07, 2010 (boomark / email).

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