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sentencing transcripts reveals that sentencers routinely rely on unfounded assumptions when sentencing juveniles to life in prison. Following efforts
courts the power to reduce sentences to approximate what the expected postplea sentence would have been, much as civil trial judges have long used
release, Del Vecchio murdered a child. At his murder trial, his judge was Louis Garippo, the same man who had helped him obtain a lenient sentence
of lower sentencing ranges. Similarly, a prosecutor could ask her staff to review cases that resulted in long sentences (e.g., for crack cocaine
reducing sentences, an action also relatively protected from appellate review. While prosecutorial sentence appeals were held constitutional by the U.S
during sentencing, instead of submitting to a jury for determination at trial, any fact that increases a defendant’s sentence beyond the prescribed
sentence anywhere within the broad statutory range. To Justice Scalia, post-trial sentences set the norm of what “the law says [the defendant
Stumpf was sentenced to death on a theory of the case that the same prosecutor later attacked in the trial of Stumpf’s accomplice.2 On federal habeas
Court held that dramatic racial-sentencing disparities do not, without more, make a death sentence unconstitutional, under either the Eighth
ordinary Americans were du- ty-bound to align their thoughts and actions with those they supposedly repre- sent. American optimism makes me have