Summary
IN A U.S. SUPREME COURT TERM JAM-PACKED WITH history-making cases, court watchers are calling a decision in a criminal sentencing controversy the biggest "surprise."
This technical area of the law seldom is the stuff of page-one headlines. Thousands of criminal convicts are marched through state and federal courts each year with most sentenced after a negotiated guilty plea, rather than a jury trial.See the full content of this document
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Constitution Causes Inconvenient Surprise
Sentences are fixed under complex formulas devised by state lawmakers or special commissions that take away mu...
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