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Notable reactions from notable officials to the new Holder memo for federal prosecutors

By Douglas A. Berman

This new post at The BLT, which is headlined "Holder Memo Calls for Flexibility in Charging, Sentencing," reports on the new memorandum from Attorney General Holder to all federal prosecutors concerning "Department Policy on Charging and Sentencing" which replaces older "Ashcroft" and "Comey" memos concerning how federal prosecutors are supposed to make basic charging, plea bargaining and sentencing decisions (basics here).  In addition to describing the memo (and the testimony from DOJ earlier this week at the Sentencing Commission's public hearing (basics here)), this post has these notable quotes from in-the-know folks about the memo's import: Sentencing Commission Vice Chairman William Carr Jr. said the Holder memo ?clearly? gives more flexibility to assistant U...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on May 29, 2010 (boomark / email).