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Gearing up for US Sentencing Commission's regional hearing in Atlanta

By Douglas A. Berman

I am very pleased to see from this new Atlanta Journal-Constitution article, headlined "Hearings to open on sentencing guidelines," that the coming start of the US Sentencing Commission's regional hearings is already getting some press.   Here is how the piece starts: The U.S. Sentencing Commission meets Tuesday in Atlanta, launching a series of hearings to determine what people think of guidelines that help decide the fate of tens of thousands of convicted felons every year. The two-day hearings at the Hyatt Regency mark the 25th anniversary of the Sentencing Reform Act of 1984. Its goal was to eliminate unwarranted sentencing disparities with guidelines that give the same punishment to similar defendants who committed similar crimes. ?This is an opportunity to let us see how the system is working,? said commission chairman Ricardo Hinojosa, a federal judge from McAllen, Texas...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on February 09, 2009 (boomark / email).