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... revisingthetheft/fraud "loss"table (reproducedin theprecedingarticle), interested groups submitted comments. Comments from the Practi tionersA' dvisoryGroup, theCriminal Law Committee oftheU.S. JudicialConferencea,nd theProbationOfficers AdvisoryGroup are reproducedbelow. Practioners' Advisory Group February 8...

... © The Ohio State University Practitioners Advisory Group Comment on Crack-Powder Ratio May 17, 2002 The Honorable Diana E. Murphy, Chair United States Sentencing Commission The Practitioners Advisory Group (PAG) is composed primarily of attorneys active in federal defense practice...

...John J. Cullerton; Peter G. Baroni; Daniel S. Mayerfeld; Ryan J. Rohlfsen; Paul H. Tzur New Law Creates Sentencing Policy Advisory Council to Improve the Illinois Criminal Justice System Legislation creating the Illinois Sentencing Policy Advisory Council (SPAC) unanimously passed both houses...

...James E. Felman; Barry Boss © The Ohio State University Letter of Practitioners Advisory Group to Sentencing Commission, December 12, 2002 Honorable Diana E. Murphy, Chair United States Sentencing Commission Washington, D.C. Dear Judge Murphy: The PractitionersÕ Advisory Group wishes...

...Celia M. Rumann; Jon M. Sands Both authors were members of the Native American Advisory Group to the U.S. Sentencing Commission, which was chaired by the Honorable Lawrence L. Piersol, U.S. District Court Judge, District of South Dakota. © The Ohio State University Lost...

... © The Ohio State University Letter from Practitioners Advisory Group on Victim Participation February 28, 2005 Editor s Note: The Sentencing Commission s Practitioners Advisory Group responded by letter to a number of issues raised at the Commission s public hearing of February 2005...

...Kim S. Hunt; Michael Connelly © The Ohio State University 02.FSR17.4_233-242.qxd 7/12/05 1:40 PM Page 233 Advisory Guidelines in the Post-Blakely Era With its rulings in Booker, the Supreme Court has redirected attention to the application of advisory sentencing guidelines.1 Advisory...

...Frank O. Bowman, III Abstract This article contends that the advisory guidelines system created by the Supreme Court's 200 decision in United States v. Booker should be replaced. It advances three arguments: First, the post- Booker advisory system is conceptually indefensible. It retains virtually...

...Karen Gelb © The Ohio State University MYTHS AND MISCONCEPTIONS: Public Opinion versus Public Judgment about Sentencing DR. KAREN GELB Senior Criminologist, Sentencing Advisory Council, Victoria, Australia, httpwww. sentencingcouncil. vic.gov.au/ [This is a short, edited excerpt of Dr. Gelb s...

...Nora V. Demleitner EDITOR S OBSERVATIONS State Prosecutors at the Center of Mass Imprisonment and Criminal Justice Reform NORA V. DEMLEITNER Roy L. Steinheimer Jr. Professor of Law, Washington and Lee University, Virginia Editor, Federal Sentencing Reporter Member, Citizens Advisory Committee...

... was heavily relied upon, and the crime rate was climbing.3 As part of the solution, the General Assembly created the Sentencing and Policy Advisory Commission (the Commission and charged the Commission with developing a sentencing structure that would prioritize the use of criminal justice resources...

... of the Advisory Committee on the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure JOSE´ A. CABRANES Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit The text draws heavily from the authors Fear of Judging: Sentencing Guidelines in the Federal Courts (University of Chicago Press, 1998). A. Law Without Judgment The federal...

...Michael A. Wolff © The Ohio State University What Is Changing? The Future Is Not What It Used to Be Michael A. Wolff Judge, Supreme Court of Missouri Chair, Missouri Sentencing Advisory Commission Distinguished Visiting Professor, Saint Louis University School of Law The question of what...

...Michael A. Wolff © The Ohio State University Lock Em Up and Throw Away the Key? Cutting Recidivism by Analyzing Sentencing Outcomes MICHAEL A. WOLFF Judge of the Supreme Court of Missouri and chairman of the Missouri Sentencing Advisory Commission When we Americans argue issues of crime...

... for rehabilitation is significant. Even a brief period of incarceration often causes the defendant JAMES E. FELMAN* Kynes, Markman & Felman, P.A., Tampa, Florida; cochair of the Sentencing Committee of the Criminal Justice Section of the American Bar Association; former cochair of the Practitioners Advisory Group...

...John C. Richter Déjà Vu All Over Again: How Post-Booker Sentencing Threatens Equal Justice under the Law* JOHN C. RICHTER United States Attorney, Western District of Oklahoma; Chair, Attorney General s Advisory Subcommittee on Sentencing I had the honor of visiting the Supreme Court earlier...

... Department that contributed to the development of an intolerably rigid and complex system routinely producing unjust federal sentences. The Supreme Court declared the binding system unconstitutional in U.S. v. Booker, but left behind an advisory system that is inefficient and unprincipled. The guidelines...

...Kevin Bennardo Abstract This Commentary provides a perspective on the U.S. Sentencing Commission’s proposed amendment to the drug distribution guideline. The proposed amendment has the potential to substantially affect federal sentencing and incarceration because of the sheer volume of advisory...

...Mark H. Allenbaugh Abstract Antonin Scalia famously observed in his dissent in United States v. Booker that an advisory sentencing guidelines regime would result in a “discordant symphony” where similarly situated offenders would receive ad hoc sentences. As this article demonstrates through...

.... This change reflected the earlier Commission’s hostility to Booker variances under the advisory guidelines and conflicts with subsequent Supreme Court authority holding that downward variances are “based on” the guidelines range within the meaning of § 3582(c)(2). By disqualifying those who had grounds...