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In praise of the US Sentencing Commission and hopeful about federal sentencing's future

By Douglas A. Berman

As I continue a too-long trek back from the US Sentencing Commission's big national conference in New Orleans, I wanted to do this quick post to praise the USSC's continuing efforts to enable sentencing data and the voices of judges and sentencing practitioners drive federal sentencing reform in this post-Booker world.  More broadly, I wanted to explain why, at least right now, I am more hopeful about the future of federal sentencing than I have been in a long time. My positive feelings about the US Sentencing Commission and federal sentencing's future are no doubt impacted by the benefits of spending most of my time in the ivory tower (and perhaps also a belly too full of beignets and fried seafood).  On the ground, there surely remain plenty of problems and injustices in the sentencing of some (many?) of the nearly 80,000 federal defendants being sentenced each year...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on June 19, 2010 (boomark / email).