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1st Circuit rules sentence improper post-'Booker'

A U.S. District Court judge who sentenced a defendant to nine years above the high end of the sentencing guidelines failed to conduct a proper analysis under the U.S. Supreme Court's 2005 ruling in U.S. v. Booker, the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has found.The government argued that the 25-year sentence was fair, and ...

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