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expectations about how they will be treated. Accounting for the lesson that will be taught or the message that will be sent is a basic ingredient of common
injury, the company contracted to manage the city’s parking meters subsequently sent the city nearly $50 million in bills to reimburse the company for
Sentence Enhancements in a World of Guilty Pleas, 110 YALE L.J. 1097 (2001) (criticizing the Supreme Court’s sentencing jurisprudence for failing to
sentencing of attempts. The Article proposes specific doctrinal recommendations for adjudicat- ing all three kinds of attempts; these recommendations are
criminal record, and usually a jail or prison sentence; past crimes lengthen those sentences; offenders released from prison or jail confront family and
sentenced to twenty-five years in prison. Every state imposes criminal penalties for HIV exposure. Some states prosecute offenders under general
imposing this new sentence, the court refused the de- fendant’s request for a downward variance based on his post-sentencing reha- bilitation, because a
other judges. It is an especially constrained and humble approach. A drug case involving the federal Sentencing Guidelines illustrates Justice Thomas’s
sentence, while another 15% are sentenced to time served, namely, incarceration that they have already experienced. 156 Thou- sands more spend brief
offense. However, the Court provided scant guidance on how lower courts should apply this standard. In the sentencing context, the Court has stressed