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The #SCOTUSHearings compel me to explain that federal judges have known that sentencing guidelines for child pornography are outdated. I wrote about needed fixes a decade ago: scholarship.richmond.edu/jolt/vol16/iss…. Here’s a thread to give #JudgeKetanjiBrownJackson’s decisions context:
It is not shocking that #JudgeKetanjiBrownJackson has sentenced defendants below the guidelines range. In 2005, the Supreme Court mandated that the Guidelines are ADVISORY and that a judge cannot treat them as mandatory. So, where do the guidelines fit into decisions?…
Judges use the guidelines as a starting point and then MUST consider other delineated #sentencing factors to select a reasonable sentence that satisfies the purposes of punishment. Those factors include things like “the need for just punishment”.
