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- Title
From Booker to Gall: The Evolution of the Reasonableness Doctrine as Applied to White-Collar Criminals and Sentencing Variances.
- Authors
Kannenberg, Casey C.
- Abstract
The article discusses the role of court cases United States v. Booker and Gall v. United States on the country's federal sentencing scheme and the doctrine of reasonableness to white-collar criminal sentences. The author explores the Sentencing Reform Act of 1984, which introduced a broad reaching reform of federal sentencing in the country. Additionally, the act created the U.S. Sentencing Commission which is responsible for enacting guidelines and sentencing policies for the federal courts. He found that circuit courts tend to be bias in applying the doctrine to white-collar criminals.
- Subjects
UNITED States; ACTIONS &; defenses (Law); UNITED States v. Booker; GALL v. United States (Supreme Court case); CRIMINAL sentencing; CRIMINAL judgments; CIRCUIT courts; CRIMINAL procedure; PRISON sentences
- Publication
Journal of Corporation Law, 2008, Vol 34, Issue 1, p349
- ISSN
0360-795X
- Publication type
Article