[Enterprise]

When violent offenders get lenient sentences it makes my blood boil too. When non-violent offenders get longer sentences than violent offenders, I question the system.

[kjm1041]

When non-violent offenders get longer sentences than violent offenders, I question the system.

Which is exactly the situation mandatory sentencing guidelines created.

My mother is a federal law clerk. She's also an unflinching conservative. Nevertheless, she often lamented the truly insane sentences she and her Judge were *forced* to hand down.

When you have no choice but to hand 40 years in federal prison to some goofy college kid for selling coke, while down the street a young psychopath gets 15 for drugging and raping his roomate, there are major and apparent problems.

I couldn't be happier with the supreme court's decision, and I have no doubt a majority of federal clerks and judges feel the same. I'll have to call home and found out how the family is celebrating. ;)