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Latest FSR issue, pondering USSC's future, now available on-line

By Douglas A. Berman

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I am pleased to report that, just in time for this week's public meeting of the US Sentencing Commission (basics here), the latest issue of the Federal Sentencing Reporter is available on-line. The opening commentary, which I authored, is entitled "Pondering the U.S. Sentencing Commission's Future." It can be downloaded at this link. The major articles of this latest FSR issue are listed below and can be accessed electronically here. (A full subscription to the Federal Sentencing Reporter can be ordered on-line here.) EDITOR'S OBSERVATIONS Douglas A. Berman, Pondering the U.S. Sentencing Commission's Future ARTICLES Laura I. Appleman, Toward a Common Law of Sentencing: Gall,Kimbrough, and the Search for Reasonableness Mark Osler, Death to These Guidelines, and a Clean Sheet of Paper Dan Aaron Polster, Does the Booker Emperor Have Any Clothes? Lisa A...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on January 12, 2009 (boomark / email).

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