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Latest FSR issue, "Fast-Track Sentencing," now available on-line

By Douglas A. Berman

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I am pleased to report that the latest issue of the Federal Sentencing Reporteris available on-line, bearing the title "Fast-Track Sentencing." Through this Issue, thanks to the extraordinary efforts of guest editor Alison Siegler, FSR has now published a set of articles and primary materials concerning federal early-disposition programs, which are known more commonly as ?fast-track? sentencing programs. As explained in Alison's Guest Editor?s Observations, which can be accessed at this link, the goal of this FSR Issue was to describe the history of fast-track sentencing programs, as well as to illuminate the current debates over whether and when judges have discretion to consider fast-track disparities when sentencing defendants who quickly plead guilty in non-fast-track districts...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on August 02, 2009 (boomark / email).

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