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Retiring Judge Calls Sentencing Guidelines "Travesty of Justice"
Loaded on May 15, 1992
published in Prison Legal News
May, 1992, page 8
Retiring Judge Calls Sentencing Guidelines "Travesty of Justice"
Filed under:
Court Access,
Judiciary,
U.S. Sentencing Guidelines.
Location:
United States of America.
In retiring from the U.S. 8th Circuit Court of Appeals January 1, Chief Justice Donald P. Lay said that "the greater disappointment" of his experience was the law's failure to deal with fair sentencing of those convicted of crimes and the parallel ...
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