U.S. v. Phath, No. 97-2213 (1st Cir.) (144 F.3d 146) (May 20, 1998) (Judge Norman H. Stahl)
QUOTE OF THE WEEK - The incoherency of the Guidelines.
[T]he fundamental problem with the guidelines is not their attempt to guide judicial discretion or their severity, but their utopian premise that 'unwarranted disparity' can and should be eliminated by rigid, detailed, mandatory sentencing formulas. . . . Disparity is ...
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