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Dean and Professor @DetroitMercyLaw; Sentencing Scholar; Speaker; Thinker; Mom of 3💗; Racial Justice Advocate;#TheDeathPenaltyOnTheStreets; #PresumedPunishable
Mar 23, 2022 8 tweets 3 min read
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compel me to explain that federal judges have known that sentencing guidelines for child pornography are outdated.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?…