CrimLaw

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A Congressman writes to defend toughening the straightjacket which Congress has placed on federal judges called mandatory sentencing guidelines:

"Downward departures have climbed steadily every year for the last several years. The rate of such departures has increased 50 percent over the last five years."

You know, maybe there's a reason for this like, ummm, I don't know, perhaps draconian mandatory sentences which consistently over-sentence and allow prosecutors to abuse the system.

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