U.S. v. LaBonte, No. 95-1726 (U.S. Supreme Court) (520 U.S. 751; 117 S.Ct. 1673) (May 27, 1997) (Justice Thomas)
Setting the stage for this decision, Justice Breyer aptly observed in his dissent that "the list of relevant sentencing factors is long, and their interaction impossibly complex." This case deals with one of those "impossibly complex" amendments to the Guidelines - Amendment No. 506 - which attempted to define the ...
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