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...Lex A. Coleman Abstract The 1984 Sentencing Reform Act charged the U.S. Sentencing Commission with developing sentencing guidelines that advanced the purposes of sentencing under 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a). After the Supreme Court cases Booker , Kimbrough , Gall , and Spears , it is now well established...

...Zachary C. Bolitho Abstract It has been approximately seventeen years since the Supreme Court issued its landmark decision in United States v. Booker . In Booker , the Court transformed the Federal Sentencing Guidelines from mandatory to advisory. Nonetheless, the front-end of federal sentencing...

...Ryan S. King; Marc Mauer © The Ohio State University 07.FSR18.2_134-145.qxd 2/23/06 2:52 PM Page 134 Sentencing with Discretion: Crack Cocaine Sentencing After Booker RYAN S. KING AND MARC MAUER January 2006 514 10th Street NW, Suite 1000 Washington, DC 20004 Staff@Sentencing Project.org...

...Stephen R. Sady Retroactive amendments to the federal sentencing guidelines, such as Amendment 821 to the calculation of criminal history, confer discretion on judges to reduce sentences when the Sentencing Commission determines that a guideline is overly harsh. The statute on retroactive...

...Commissioner John R. Steer; Judge William K. Sessions, III © 2025 The Ohio State University 2025 Mr. Chairman and Distinguished Members of the Committee, we are here this morning as Vice Chairs of the United States Sentencing Commission. We want to thank you for holding this very timely...

...Frank O. Bowman, III © The Ohio State University Sentencing Factors Applicable to All Offense Types: Model Sentencing Guidelines §§3.1-3.6 FRANK O. BOWMAN, III Floyd R. Gibson Missouri Endowed Professor of Law, University of Missouri, Columbia School of Law Editor, Federal Sentencing Reporter...

...Constitution Project Sentencing Initiative © The Ohio State University THE CONSTITUTION PROJECT SENTENCING INITIATIVE Recommendations for Federal Criminal Sentencing in a Post-Booker World CONSTITUTION PROJECT SENTENCING INITIATIVE CO-CHAIRS Edwin Meese III Philip B. Heymann MEMBERS Zachary W...

...Frank O. Bowman, III © The Ohio State University A Simplified Sentencing Grid: Model Sentencing Guidelines §1.1 FRANK O. BOWMAN, III Floyd R. Gibson Missouri Endowed Professor of Law, University of Missouri Columbia Editor, Federal Sentencing Reporter Model Sentencing Guidelines §1.1...

...Frank O. Bowman, III © The Ohio State University Determining the Sentencing Range and the Sentence Within Range: Model Sentencing Guidelines §§1.2-1.8 Model Sentencing Guidelines §1.2 General Application Instructions Except as specifically directed, the provisions of these Model Sentencing...

...Mark H. Allenbaugh © The Ohio State University Drawn from Nowhere A Review of the U.S. Sentencing Commission s White-Collar Sentencing Guidelines and Loss Data I. Introduction Just over twenty- ve years ago, when assigned the task of developing the initial set of sentencing guidelines...

...Stephen R. Sady Abstract This article addresses one of the most difficult areas of federal sentencing law: concurrent and consecutive sentences in dual state and federal prosecutions. Prior to the Sentencing Reform Act, the Supreme Court in Ponziset out the norm of full comity and mutual respect...

...James E. Baker Is Military Justice Sentencing on the March? Should it be? And if so, Where should it Head? Court-Martial Sentencing Process, Practice, and Issues JAMES E. BAKER* Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces Adjunct professor of law at Georgetown University...

...Jon Wool Aggravated Sentencing: Blakely v. Washington Legal Considerations for State Sentencing Systems JON WOOL Vera Institute of Justice State Sentencing and Corrections Program Few decisions in recent memory have engendered as much uncertainty in the state and federal courts as Blakely v...

...United States Sentencing Commission; Executive Summary © The Ohio State University 08.FSR17.4_269-276.qxd 7/12/05 1:44 PM Page 269 Fifteen Years of Guidelines Sentencing: An Assessment of How Well the Federal Criminal Justice System Is Achieving the Goals of Sentencing Reform The Sentencing...

...Frank O. Bowman, III © The Ohio State University Observations on the Mandatory Minimum Sentencing Provisions of S. 2123, the Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act of 2015 FRANK O. BOWMAN, III Floyd R. Gibson Missouri Endowed Professor of Law, University of Missouri School of Law Note...

...Frank O. Bowman, III © The Ohio State University EDITOR S OBSERVATIONS Dispatches from Two Fronts of the Battle for Sentencing Reform: Parole and Federal Sentencing Legislation FRANK O. BOWMAN, III Floyd R. Gibson Missouri Endowed Professor of Law University of Missouri School of Law...

...F. James Sensenbrenner Jr. © The Ohio State University Chairman s Statement to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security, House Judiciary Committee, October 12, 2011 Hearing on Uncertain Justice: The Status of Federal Sentencing and the U.S. Sentencing Commission Six Years...

...Judge Patti B. Saris © The Ohio State University Testimony before the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security, House Judiciary Committee, October 12, 2011 Hearing on Uncertain Justice: The Status of Federal Sentencing and the U.S. Sentencing Commission Six Years after U.S. v...

...Matthew S. Miner © The Ohio State University Testimony before the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security, House Judiciary Committee, October 12, 2011 Hearing on Uncertain Justice: The Status of Federal Sentencing and the U.S. Sentencing Commission Six Years after U.S. v...

...Judge Andrew S. Effron; Jonathan J. Wroblewski Abstract In recently-enacted legislation, Congress drew upon the 35-year experience with sentencing reform in the federal civilian criminal courts to reform significant aspects of the sentencing process in the military justice system. The article...