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Another judicious comment from the judiciary on Judge Kopf's "Brief and Modest Proposal"

By Douglas A. Berman

Regular readers may recall this engaging post from last week concerning providing federal sentencing data for particular judges, titled "'A Brief and Modest Proposal' ... an original essay from US District Judge Richard Kopf."  That post in turn prompted a detailed response from another federal district judge, US District Judge Edmund Sargus, which is reprinted in full in this post.  Both posts have generated a lot of terrific comments (see here and here), including one that I received via a cc:d e-mail from a circuit judge that I have been permitted to reprint: Dear Ed, I read your letter to Professor Berman in his blog.  I liked what you wrote. Here's another thought.  As was the case pre-guidelines, let the probation officer get all the statistical information he/she can on sentences imposed by other federal judges on somewhat similarly situated offenders...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on August 06, 2010 (boomark / email).