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An original response to "A Brief and Modest Proposal" from another US District Judge

By Douglas A. Berman

Regular readers may recall this engaging post from last week concerning providing federal sentencing data for particular judges, titled "'A Brief and Modest Proposal' ... an original essay from US District Judge Richard Kopf." I am pleased now to be able to provide an original reponse to this original essay from another federal district judge: Dear Professor Berman: I write to share my views regarding a proposal to publish each year statistics which would disclose the percentage of times individual judges did, or did not, impose a sentence within the guideline range. Upon first blush, the idea may seem reasonable. Upon inspection, there are many reasons to oppose the proposal. At a minimum, such data should be understood as far more complex than what has been represented...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on August 03, 2010 (boomark / email).