U.S. v. Alatorre, No. 99-1773 (8th Cir.) (207 F.3d 1078) (March 29, 2000) (Per Curiam)
Loaded on May 1, 2000
published in Punch and Jurists
May 08, 2000
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Quote from an article in the Buffalo Criminal Law Review by two law professors who strongly criticized the Guidelines' as "disfunctional" due to their failure to achieve "honest, wise or equal sentences".
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