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US Sentencing Guidelines Help
June 05, 2009
Topic: Criminal
There are few things more complicated in criminal law than the Federal Guidelines. The Guidelines are used to calculate the presumptive sentencing range for a defendant. After the Supreme Court's decision in United States v. Booker, 543 U.S. 220 (2005), the guidelines are now advisory as opposed to mandatory as the used to be. Therefore, a judge now has considerably more discretion in determining a defendant's sentence.
There is a great website that is devoted to helping determine a person's guidelines at www.sentencing.us. This is a free not for profit effort but is excellent for those wanting to check their guideline scores.
