In a splintered and complex decision that may throw federal criminal cases into short-term chaos, the Supreme Court on Wednesday took the bite out of the federal sentencing guidelines and may have handed back to federal judges the discretion in sentencing they lost 20 years ago after the guidelines were enacted. Commentators said Wednesday that the decision "literally revolutionized federal sentencing law" and gave judges "the greatest sentencing power they've ever had in the history of the republic."
January 13, 2005 at 12:00 AM
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