A decision last week by the Atlanta-based federal appeals court showed the court's continued willingness to toss sentences that deviate from the federal sentencing guidelines—at least when prosecutors complain a lower court has been too lenient.
But the Aug. 22 decision by a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit may not raise the ire of civil rights proponents. In this case, the sentences found too low by the court were for corrections officers convicted in the wake of guard-on-inmate violence.
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