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Title: Regulating Local Variations in Federal Sentencing.
Author : Stanford Law School
Release Date : January 01, 2005
Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
Pages : * pages
Size : 273 KB

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INTRODUCTION While federalism justifies variations among state laws, federal criminal law is supposed to be a uniform national response to crimes of national import. On paper, a single set of federal criminal statutes and Federal Sentencing Guidelines applies uniformly throughout the United States. But in practice, federal criminal charges and sentences vary greatly from state to state and from district to district. For example, some districts regularly prosecute low-level drug offenders. Others set high drug-quantity thresholds for charging and refer less significant cases to state authorities. In some districts, defendants must go to great lengths to earn cooperation discounts at sentencing. In others, much less cooperation will suffice.