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US Sentencing Commission posts full text of its significant new guideline amendments

By Douglas A. Berman

I am very pleased to report that the US Sentencing Commission now has posted on its website the full text of its new "Amendments to the Sentencing Guidelines, Policy Statements, and Official Commentary." Here is how this technical document is officially described: Pursuant to section 994(p) of title 28, United States Code, the United States Sentencing Commission hereby submits to the Congress the following amendments to the sentencing guidelines and the reasons therefor. As authorized by such section, the Commission specifies an effective date of November 1, 2010, for these amendments. Though there are a lot of important and interesting aspects to all the amendments, the first five amendments are especially significant and all could be hugely consequential...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on April 30, 2010 (boomark / email).