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US Sentencing Commission's regional hearings to start next week

By Douglas A. Berman

I am please to see that the US Sentencing Commission now has posted to its website this official press release and this agenda concerning its first of a series of regional hearings.  Here are the basic details from the press release: The United States Sentencing Commission will hold in Atlanta on February 10-11, 2009, the first of a series of regional public hearings on federal sentencing policy. The Commission is holding these public hearings to gather feedback on federal sentencing practices and the operation of the federal sentencing guidelines. The regional hearings coincide with the 25th anniversary of the Sentencing Reform Act of 1984.... At the hearings, the Commission expects to hear from a wide range of witnesses from across the nation, including the judiciary, law enforcement, prosecutors, defense attorneys, community interest groups, sentencing experts, and others interested in federal sentencing...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on February 05, 2009 (boomark / email).