7th Circ. Says Revisiting Harsh Guidelines Isn't Court's Job
By Jody Godoy ( July 3, 2017, 3:49 PM EDT) -- The Seventh Circuit has rejected a white collar defendant's "novel" argument that judges must decide whether the federal sentencing guidelines suggest a harsher-than-necessary penalty before going on to do that same analysis of the sentences they hand down....
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