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My (now published) take on the MPC sentencing revisions

By Douglas A. Berman

This past January, I was part of a panel at the 2009 AALS conference talking about the American Law Institute's on-going revision of the sentencing chapters of the Model Penal Code.  As detailed here, the Florida Law Review has now published the terrific articles that emerged from that panel.  My little article is titled "The Enduring (and Again Timely) Wisdom of the Original MPC Sentencing Provisions."  This article can be downloaded below, and here is how it gets started: My favorite bit of folk wisdom is ?if it ain?t broke, don?t fix it.?  However, when considering the ongoing revisions to the Model Penal Code: Sentencing (MPCS) provisions, a corollary comes to mind: ?fix what?s really broke, and don?t risk breaking what ain?t really broke...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on September 02, 2009 (boomark / email).