Are guidelines guides or rules?

The U.S. Supreme Court returned judicial discretion in sentencing to the federal trial courts two years ago in United States v. Booker. Or did it? Appellate decisions handed down since Booker indicate the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has a “disturbing pattern” of not allowing trial judges to use discretion to sentence defendants outside of the ...

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Are guidelines guides or rules?

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