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AG Mukasey going through the sentencing looking glass

By Douglas A. Berman

My last two posts have me really wondering whether being a inside-the-Beltway must be like being in Alice's mixed-up Wonderland.  To date, United States Attorney General Michael Mukasey has expressed two notable sentencing viewpoints: (1) in a discussion concerning the sentencing of crack defendants, AG Mukasey has advocated to Congress against the U.S. Sentencing Commission's unanimous decision to make some prior drug defendants eligible for retroactive sentencing justice, and (2) in a discussion concerning the sentencing of 9/11 defendants, AG Mukasey has indicated to Europeans that he hopes leniency be shown to defendants who played a role in the murder of thousands of Americans. Wow!  The symbolic impact of these two notable sentencing viewpoints coming from the top US law enforcer is telling: apparently we should not be too concerned about really achieving sentencing justice in either the war on drugs or the war on terror...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on March 16, 2008 (boomark / email).