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U.S. v. Scott, No. 12-3131 (8th Cir.) ( F.3d ) (October 22, 2013) (Judge William J. Riley)

Loaded on Nov. 4, 2013 published in Punch and Jurists November 02, 2015
Filed under: Punch And Jurists, Parsimony Principle or Clause.

In 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a), Congress directed that sentencing courts “shall impose a sentence sufficient, but not greater than necessary” to comply with the purposes set forth in paragraph (2) of that statute. As viewed from the perspective of Judge Myron Bright, a frequent critic of the harshness of Federal ...

 

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