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Effective and fascinating report on USSC regional hearing in NYC

By Douglas A. Berman

I was pleased to see this report from Bloomberg news, headlined "Judges Call on U.S. to Simplify Sentencing Guidelines," covering yesterday's first day of the US Sentencing Commission's regional hearing in New York City.  Here are extended excerpts from an effective and interesting article: The U.S. Sentencing Commission should work to simplify federal guidelines and keep them advisory, rather than return to a mandatory system, a group of federal judges said.  The judges spoke today at the U.S. Court of International Trade in New York, where the commission is holding the third in a series of public hearings on policy issues. The seven-member commission should work with Congress to create a ?politically viable? plan to simplify the sentencing rules, which are ?ridiculed? in other countries, said Jon Newman, who sits on the appeals court in New York...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on July 10, 2009 (boomark / email).