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 Justice Kennedy's SPEECH to the ABA SAYS IT ALL:

"When it costs so much more to incarcerate a prisoner than to educate a child, we should take special care to insure that we are not incarcerating too many persons for too long.... Our resources are misspent, our punishments too severe, our sentences too long."

Unless of course your a friend of the President.. who suggests that probation is a harsh punishment..

READ PRESIDENT BUSH"S EXPLANATION OF HIS COMUTATION OF LIBBY"S SENTENCE

 

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but the defendant confessed ---he must be guilty...

Wrong...

Check out professor Kassin's research on false confessions

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All should know, that the innocent not only get convicted.. THEY ARE PUT ON DEATH ROW.. 

Just check out Scheck and Neufeld's work at the Innocence Project.. or the U.S. Justice Department's own Guide on DNA exonerating those wrongfully convicted.

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 For other research links check out The LawEngine, The Legalengine, Rominger's, LexisOne ,

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The SUPREME COURT SENDS A DEATH MESSAGE TO DRACONIAN MANDATORY GUIDELINE SENTENCING

"In Gall v. United States, 128 S. Ct. 586 (2007), the Supreme Court shed considerable light on the scope and extent of a district court's discretion under the now-advisory federal sentencing guidelines. The Justices emphasized the broad sweep of a sentencing court's discretion in the wake of the decision in United States v. Booker, 543 U.S. 220, 260-62 (2005), which rendered the federal sentencing guidelines advisory. .... The Court acknowledged that the guidelines deserve some weight in the sentencing calculus, as they are "the product of careful study based on extensive empirical evidence derived from the review of thousands of individual sentencing decisions." Id. at 594. It made clear, though, that courts of appeals must grant district courts wide latitude in making individualized sentencing determinations, thus guarding against the institutionalization of an impermissible presumption that outside-the-range sentences are unreasonable. Id. at 595."      From United States v. Martin, 1st Cir. March 21, 2008

CHECK OUT WHAT IS  happening now

at Professor Berman's Sentencing Site

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Even the U.S. Government recognizes that its sentencing policies under the Guidelines were  discriminatory, Racist

and are unfairly applied  ... region by region... by the whimsical viewpoints and charging decisions of the particular U.S. Attorney...  Read the U.S. Sentencing Commission' s

15 year review of the Guidelines

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