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U.S. v. Barrios-Gutierrez, No. 99-10148 (9th Cir.) (255 F.3d 1024) (July 3, 2001) (Judge Diarmuid F. O'Scannlain)

When the Federal Sentencing Guidelines were enacted into law in 1987, the Sentencing Commission made a number of grandiose promises about how the Guidelines could be counted on to produce “honesty in sentencing” and to eliminate the “confusion and implicit deception that arose out of the pre-guidelines sentencing system.” Federal ...

 

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