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DC Circuit splits on reasonableness review

By Douglas A. Berman

Though I'm on the road, the sentencing news never stops.  Fortunately, How Appealing has this report on the interesting doings from the DC Circuit today:"In my judgment, the majority opinion illustrates the magnetic pull that the Guidelines still occasionally exert over appellate courts in cases involving sentences outside the Guidelines range." So writes Circuit Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh, dissenting from a decision that a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit issued today. Circuit Judge Janice Rogers Brown wrote the majority opinion, in which Circuit Judge Douglas H. Ginsburg joined.

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on June 03, 2008 (boomark / email).