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U.S. v. Beiermann, No. CR 07-4018-MWB (N.D.Iowa) (599 F.Supp.2d 1087) (February 24, 2009) (Judge Mark W. Bennett)

Loaded on Jan. 1, 2009 published in Punch and Jurists January 26, 2009
Filed under: Punch And Jurists, Lack of Empirical Support for Guidelines Sentence.

The proposition propounded by Judge Pratt in U.S. v. Johnson, 588 F.Supp.2d 997 (N.D.Iowa Dec. 4, 2008) - namely that the penalties imposed by U.S.S.G. § 2G2.2 are not the product of any “study, empirical research and data” by the Sentencing Commission, but rather were the result of “the tinkering …

 

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