http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/01/13/news/court.html
Linda Greenhouse
"The Supreme Court has transformed criminal sentencing in the U.S. federal courts by restoring to judges much of the discretion that Congress took away 21 years ago when it put sentencing guidelines in place and told judges to follow them.
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The guidelines, intended to make sentences more uniform, should be treated as merely advisory to cure a constitutional deficiency in the system"
