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the, now ironically, advisory Federal Sentencing Guidelines, see generally Marvin Frankel, Criminal Sentence: Law Without Order (1973). 164. See, e.g
disparate impact of the criminal law and sentencing practices on families.6 Rather, we deliberately chose to focus on the facial treatment of an
misdemeanors that carry a maximum possible sentence of six months in jail. Applying the petty offense distinction in the Terry context makes sense because the
affirmed a death sentence; cases certified by one of the Judge Advocates General (JAG); extraordinary writ cases in which relief has been granted; and
common fact pattern among recent denaturalization cases and pre- sents a novel legal argument to restrict denaturalization cases against citizens with
Supreme Court divided over the question whether he was properly sentenced under a statute that provides for increased penalties if the defendant
establish the sentence,” then adding that “[a]s a former federal prosecutor, I know that such a rigid system of sentencing can only end in failure because
Justice Facts, SENT’G PROJECT, https://www.sentencingproject.org/criminal-justice-facts [https://perma.cc/89DH-TT3Z] (noting that one in three Black
Justice Facts, SENT’G PROJECT, https://www.sentencingproject.org/criminal-justice-facts [https://perma.cc/89DH-TT3Z] (noting that one in three