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The important project of "Deconstructing the Guidelines"

By Douglas A. Berman

As detailed way down on this federal defender resource page, the federal defenders are starting an important new project entitled "Deconstructing the Guidelines."  Here is how the project is described on the FD resource page:Deconstructing the Guidelines is a special project undertaken by National Federal Defender Sentencing Resource Counsel.  The papers in this section critically examine the history and basis of the most frequently encountered provisions of the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines.  Judges are now invited to consider arguments that the guideline itself fails properly to reflect § 3553(a) considerations, reflects an unsound judgment, does not treat defendant characteristics in the proper way, or that a different sentence is appropriate regardless...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on June 16, 2008 (boomark / email).