January 2008
Challenging the Federal Sentencing Guidelines on Policy GroundsIs There Hope?
By Joseph F. Savage Jr. and Paras N. Shah
The federal Sentencing Guidelines can lead to “patently absurd” punishments in white-collar cases. United States v. Adelson, 441 F. Supp. 2d 506, 515 (S.D.N.Y. 2006) (Rakoff, J.). But judicial discretion in sentencing, strongly reaffirmed by the Supreme Court in Kimbrough v. United States, No. 06-6330 (Dec. 10, 2007), and Gall v. United States, No. 06-7949 (Dec. 10, 2007), has opened an important avenue for advocacy in business crime cases.
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