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Making the case for sentencing reform in the form of "Mandatory Minimalism"

By Douglas A. Berman

I am pleased to see this new article, titled "Mandatory Minimalism," about reforming mandatory minimum sentencing statutes authored by Professors Paul Cassell and Erik Luna.   (Though Cassell was once a federal judge, luna is likely now more famous for once having been cited by Lindsay Lohan).  Here are two paragraphs from the article's introduction: One of us (Cassell) is a former federal judge nominated by President George W. Bush, now a ?conservative? scholar whose work is often supportive of law enforcement, the death penalty, and the rights of crime victims.  The other (Luna) is a ?libertarian? who tends to be suspicious of government and adamant about abuses of power, including those by police and prosecutors, and his scholarship has expressed the need for wholesale criminal justice reform (especially in the federal system)...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on September 26, 2010 (boomark / email).