Wednesday, June 30, 2004

Sentence guidelines unconstitutional

Do you get the feeling that federal judges across the country (not to mention criminal defendants) were just waiting for a case like Blakeley v. Washington, decided by the Supreme Court last week? In Utah, it didn't take long for the case to have an immediate impact, as chronicled in The Salt Lake Tribune's "Utah federal judge: sentence guidelines unconstitutional" and Deseret Morning News' "Judge tosses federal guides."