Dissenting View of Commissioner Paul H. Robinson to the Promulgation of Sentencing Guidelines by the United States Sentencing Commission

Authors

Paul Robinson, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law SchoolFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1987

Abstract

The Sentencing Reform Act was intended to implement Congress' inspired vision of modern criminal sentencing. Comprehensive and binding guidelines were to bring rationality and greater consistency to federal sentencing. With the guidelines promulgated today, however, that vision dims. These guidelines may well produce more irrationality and more unwarranted disparity than exists today.

Reprinted in 41 Criminal Law Reporter 3174 (1987)

Keywords

sentencing, guidelines, sentencing commission, Sentencing Reform Act

Publication Title

Federal Register

Publication Citation

52 Fed. Reg. 18121 (1987)

Repository Citation

Robinson, Paul, "Dissenting View of Commissioner Paul H. Robinson to the Promulgation of Sentencing Guidelines by the United States Sentencing Commission" (1987). Articles. 412.
https://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/faculty_articles/412