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(deleted discussion of someone's case) MKoltnow 06:15, 6 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The first paragraph reads as informally as someone's class notes. If anyone is able, please edit. DRosenbach ^{(Talk | Contribs)} 12:56, 25 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Sentencing table

If anyone can figure out a good way to make the sentencing table reflect the four zones (A, B, C and D), please provide suggestions. Perhaps we could color code the zones, if it's not possible to set up the borders as seen at http://www.ussc.gov/2009guid/5a_SenTab.htm ? Thanks, Tisane (talk) 00:45, 11 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The borders of the sentencing zones do not seem to be showing up properly unless you hit Print Preview. Would this version be better, do you think? Tisane (talk) 07:26, 30 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Can anyone explain the meaning of this paragraph?

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Guidelines can either be indeterminate or determinate and depend on the year of the offense. Simply observing the top column on the sentencing table would lead one to believe that the guidelines would apply directly. However, they are divided into 5 sections depending on the year of the first offense and may be applied selectively. The Guidelines manual, therefore, needs to be read in the context of the previous guideline manuals in order to arrive at a sentencing determination. Conduct is irrelevant in the context of determinate guidelines while criminal history is irrelevant in the case of indeterminate guidelines.

I also removed this:

In general, indeterminate sentences are believed to support the rehabilitation and specific deterrence models of sentencing while determinate sentences are believed to support the general deterrence and just deserts models of sentencing.

Tisane (talk) 16:35, 17 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Increased Sentence for a Domain Name?

There is this line in the current version of the article:

In addition, there are enhancements related to obstruction of justice, including obstructing or impeding the administration of justice, reckless endangerment during flight, commission of an offense while on release, and false registration of a domain name.

The last part seems out of place. I'm not sure though what the rational was for adding "false registration of a domain name". Was that part of some bigger case?

--CoverStory (talk) 22:59, 11 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

References 1 and 2

produce a 404 not found. Here's the 2010 guidelines: http://www.ussc.gov/Guidelines/2010_guidelines/index.cfm. I don't know how to fix it.

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 --[[User:CoverStory|CoverStory]] ([[User talk:CoverStory|talk]]) 22:59, 11 September 2010 (UTC)
+== References 1 and 2 ==
+produce a 404 not found.  Here's the 2010 guidelines: http://www.ussc.gov/Guidelines/2010_guidelines/index.cfm.  I don't know how to fix it.