The Article first provides an overview of the history and prevailing motivations behind the promulgation of the Federal Sentencing Guidelines. Then, using the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit as an illustrative example, the Article contends that, notwithstanding the supposed “far-reaching” implications of both Blakely and Booker, the judiciary\u27s continued reliance on the “advisory” Guidelines has practically changed federal sentencing procedures very little in form or function. For a contrasting response to Booker, the Article thereafter examines the State of Maine\u27s sentencing scheme and its response to the Supreme Court\u27s Booker/Blakely decisions. By arguing that Maine\u27s sentencing procedure reflects a commonsense a...
The much anticipated Supreme Court decision in United States v. Booker and Fanfan has both invalidat...
As the Supreme Court has turned federal sentencing upside down in Booker, it has left a host of open...
It has been nearly ten years since the Supreme Court’s seminal decision in United States v. Booker, ...
The Article first provides an overview of the history and prevailing motivations behind the promulga...
The Article argues in favor of shifting the balance in federal sentencing toward a more indeterminat...
This Note examines the inherent conflict among the Federal Sentencing Guidelines, judicial discretio...
This Article takes a statistical look at the state of federal sentencing roughly a decade after Unit...
This article argues that in addition to the swing toward increased judicial discretion and overall l...
This Article proposes a simplified sentencing table consisting of nine base sentencing ranges, each ...
This article charts a path for criminal sentencing in the wake of the Supreme Court’s recent bombshe...
The Columbia Law Review\u27s Symposium on sentencing, which took place less than two weeks after the...
United States v. Booker held that the Federal Sentencing Guidelines ( Guidelines ), as they were app...
This Note will explore the rarely discussed consequences that result when courts of appeals freely i...
In two recent opinions, Blakely v. Washington and United States v. Booker, the U.S. Supreme Court ef...
In 1987, the Nation’s first attempt to standardize federal sentencing came in the form of the United...
The much anticipated Supreme Court decision in United States v. Booker and Fanfan has both invalidat...
As the Supreme Court has turned federal sentencing upside down in Booker, it has left a host of open...
It has been nearly ten years since the Supreme Court’s seminal decision in United States v. Booker, ...
The Article first provides an overview of the history and prevailing motivations behind the promulga...
The Article argues in favor of shifting the balance in federal sentencing toward a more indeterminat...
This Note examines the inherent conflict among the Federal Sentencing Guidelines, judicial discretio...
This Article takes a statistical look at the state of federal sentencing roughly a decade after Unit...
This article argues that in addition to the swing toward increased judicial discretion and overall l...
This Article proposes a simplified sentencing table consisting of nine base sentencing ranges, each ...
This article charts a path for criminal sentencing in the wake of the Supreme Court’s recent bombshe...
The Columbia Law Review\u27s Symposium on sentencing, which took place less than two weeks after the...
United States v. Booker held that the Federal Sentencing Guidelines ( Guidelines ), as they were app...
This Note will explore the rarely discussed consequences that result when courts of appeals freely i...
In two recent opinions, Blakely v. Washington and United States v. Booker, the U.S. Supreme Court ef...
In 1987, the Nation’s first attempt to standardize federal sentencing came in the form of the United...
The much anticipated Supreme Court decision in United States v. Booker and Fanfan has both invalidat...
As the Supreme Court has turned federal sentencing upside down in Booker, it has left a host of open...
It has been nearly ten years since the Supreme Court’s seminal decision in United States v. Booker, ...