Scott covered the important points in his post about the Supreme Court's decision today in Gall and Kimbrough. Boiled down, the Court in these cases says that it meant what it said in Booker: the Sentencing Guidelines are just that -- suggestions -- and federal...
sentencing policy
For once, there's good news from the War on (some classes of people and some) drugs. On Friday, the new crack sentencing guidelines went into effect. The new guidelines will.