Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2-1-2005
Abstract
This symposium essay speculates about how Booker's loosening of the Federal Sentencing Guidelines is likely to affect white-collar plea bargaining and sentencing. Prosecutors' punishment intuitions and the strong white-collar defense bar will keep white-collar sentencing from growing as harsh as drug sentencing, but the parallels are nonetheless ominous. The essay suggests that the Sentencing Commission revise its loss-computation rules, calibrate white-collar sentences to their core purpose of expressing condemnation, and adding shaming punishments and apologies to give moderate prison sentences more bite.
Repository Citation
Bibas, Stephanos, "White-Collar Plea Bargaining and Sentencing After Booker" (2005). Faculty Scholarship. 250.
https://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/faculty_scholarship/250
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Publication Citation
47 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 721 (2005).