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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Funny how the conservatives who have been agitating about the harsh sentence Libby got don't otherwise seem to have a problem with the Sentencing Guidelines. The "proportionality" here is that Libby got the same sentence that other perjurers get.
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I understand that.
For my part, I think that the Federal Sentencing Guidelines are an abomination -- both as a concept and (in some instances) as to the sentencing ranges.
I once sent three guys in their early 20s to the federal penitentiary for over 25 years for the sale of 33 grams of crack (more or less). That was the minimum of each of their ranges. (One might have only gotten 22-23 years.) That is not proportional punishment.
S_A_M
