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Should the US Sentencing Commission have more members?

By Douglas A. Berman

A conversation with a thoughtful sentencing observer got me to thinking about whether folks interested in significant reform of the federal sentencing system might urge a novel structural change in a key federal sentencing player.  Specifically, perhaps the US Sentencing Commission, which only has seven members and has often through its history been beset with disruptive vacancies, ought to be bigger.  Many state sentencing commissions are double the size, and there are lots of reasons to believe that larger, more diverse commissions are better able to propose, promote and protect new and needed sentencing reforms.

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on April 18, 2009 (boomark / email).