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Start your year by writing a commentary for the Federal Sentencing Reporter

By Douglas A. Berman

Wearing my hat as an editor of the Federal Sentencing Reporter, I am happy to reproduce a solicitation from the journal below (and I am eager to encourage regular readers to put together their views on federal sentencing ASAP): Seeking Commentaries for Federal Sentencing Reporter Special Issue to provide ?Advice for the U.S. Sentencing Commissioners? Just before adjourning for the holidays, the U.S. Senate finally confirmed President Barack Obama?s nominee for chair of the U.S. Sentencing Commission, U.S. District Judge Patti B. Saris from the District of Massachusetts.  Judge Saris is new to the Commission, and she joins a Commission on which now two-thirds of the members began their service after the Supreme Court?s landmark ruling in Booker transformed the guidelines from mandates to advice...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on January 03, 2011 (boomark / email).