
Ketanji Brown Jackson Confirmation Hearings Takeaways
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Sentencing Guideline Ranges
There's three sentencing recommendations. And then, there's something called the sentencing report the judges get. Even if a judge wants to depart from the guide lines, upward or downward, you do have to correctly calculate the guide line range. If you calculate them wrong, ah, then you can't really explain why you departed from the jariata. That's a way to get your sentencing flipped on appeal. So in case number one, there was a guide lines range of 37 to forty six, maybe, or forty six t 57. In that case, a jackson imposed 57 months. The interesting thing about this case is that the prosecution in the case recommended below the guide lines range.
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