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"A Brief and Modest Proposal" ... an original essay from US District Judeg Richard Kopf

By Douglas A. Berman

I am very pleased to be able to reprint a timely e-mail that landed in my in-box this afternoon from Richard G. Kopf, United States District Judge for the District of Nebraska.  Here is the Judge's wind-up and pitch: I read Professors Masur's article entitled "Booker Reconsidered" and your post about his article [available here]. After that reading, a thought occurred to me that has been percolating in my muddled mind for some time.  Hence, the following "Brief and Modest Proposal." Feel free to post if you like. Take care. ______________________ A Brief and Modest Proposal Although it has the data and although it releases data on a court-by-court basis, the United States Sentencing Commission has never publicly released information on the extent to which individual federal judges sentence within or outside the Guidelines...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on July 28, 2010 (boomark / email).