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it is not only the formal rule that constrains judges, but also the implicit normative sentiment behind it. Public confidence is the only currency that
] (reporting on a judge’s “ruling [that the District Attorney’s] policy to end sentencing enhance- ments in criminal cases is unlawful”). 11. See Report and
not exactly strongholds for liberal sentiments. The notion that demographics play a major role is likewise difficult to sustain; for example
honored in the breach. Only at sentencing do victims get to speak, and by then plea bargains have made the input of victims little more than window
policies since 9/11 have led to significant prison sentences for many young American Muslims, even when their charged criminal conduct cannot be tied to
respondent was convicted and sentenced to death, his application for state habeas relief was denied, and the district court denied his federal habeas
scheme violated the Sixth Amendment jury right because it permitted judges to sentence individuals to death based on facts not found by a jury. Every
federal sentencing guidelines, and is adjudicated without any published ruling and often without the defendant ever leaving the courtroom,9 sources
federal sentencing guidelines from what would have been, in my opinion, a senseless invalidation of them,32 and his balance-tipping concurring opinion in