June 23, 2004

Federal Law on Sentencing Is Unjust, Judge Rules

June 23, 2004/ Tron Nick

A federal judge in Boston ruled on Monday that federal sentencing laws were unconstitutional because they gave prosecutors too much power. In an impassioned 177-page decision, the judge, William G. Young, described a system in which prosecutors used various strategies to reward those who pleaded guilty and to impose exceptionally harsh sentences on those who chose to stand trial and then lost. [more]

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