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Boston: Study shows wide disparity in sentencing after U.S. v Booker

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Disparity cited in sentence lengths Analyst studying Hub?s US judges alleges bias risk By Jonathan Saltzman Boston Globe Staff / December 20, 2010 Since the US Supreme Court struck down mandatory sentencing guidelines five years ago in a landmark ruling, the difference in the average sentences of the most lenient and most severe federal judges in Boston has widened, according to a new study that says the trend threatens to undermine fairness. Now that the guidelines are only advisory, the three most lenient jurists impose average prison sentences of slightly more than two years for all crimes, said the study in the Stanford Law Review published this week. The two toughest impose average sentences double that. The findings are troubling, said the author of the study, Ryan W...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on December 20, 2010 (boomark / email).