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• Title: Guidance from Above and Beyond (Extended Sentence Review)
• Author : Stanford Law School
• Release Date : January 01, 2005
• Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 287 KB

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INTRODUCTION Criminal sentencing does not just happen in the courtroom. Some key sentencing decisions happen long before court convenes, while other critical sentencing decisions take place long after court adjourns. Although the public focuses primarily on the black-robed figure wielding the gavel, sentencing reflects decisions by a veritable parade of actors, including legislators, sentencing commissioners, police officers, prosecutors, juries, trial judges, appellate judges, and executive branch officials. (1) All of these people guide and constrain the sentencing process. Through their official actions, they inform each other about what is happening in their corners of the sentencing drama and prod their counterparts to respond appropriately. As the Supreme Court has written, the federal constitutional design assumes that the branches of government "converse with each other on matters of vital common interest." (2)

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