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(deleted discussion of someone's case) MKoltnow 06:15, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
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)
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)
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.
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)
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)
198.70.8.13 ( talk) 21:01, 13 June 2011 (UTC)
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. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.191.222.47 ( talk) 20:17, 4 January 2011 (UTC)
In the Insider trading article, i read that it "has a base offense level of 8, which puts it in Zone A under the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines", where "U.S. Sentencing Guidelines" linked to here. Reading this article, i suppose that "base level" is what is called here "offense level". I am now wondering whether 8 is on the low side or the high side of the scale: is level 1 more of an offense than level 43, or the other way around? Secondly, this article does not seems to correlate the offense levels to the zones, as in the "…which puts it in Zone A…". -- Jerome Potts ( talk) 03:42, 18 May 2013 (UTC)
"Zone A consists of sentencing ranges of 0–6 months", and that
"a defendant in Zone A is eligible for Federal Probation, and no term of imprisonment is required."
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(deleted discussion of someone's case) MKoltnow 06:15, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
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)
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)
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.
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)
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)
198.70.8.13 ( talk) 21:01, 13 June 2011 (UTC)
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. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.191.222.47 ( talk) 20:17, 4 January 2011 (UTC)
In the Insider trading article, i read that it "has a base offense level of 8, which puts it in Zone A under the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines", where "U.S. Sentencing Guidelines" linked to here. Reading this article, i suppose that "base level" is what is called here "offense level". I am now wondering whether 8 is on the low side or the high side of the scale: is level 1 more of an offense than level 43, or the other way around? Secondly, this article does not seems to correlate the offense levels to the zones, as in the "…which puts it in Zone A…". -- Jerome Potts ( talk) 03:42, 18 May 2013 (UTC)
"Zone A consists of sentencing ranges of 0–6 months", and that
"a defendant in Zone A is eligible for Federal Probation, and no term of imprisonment is required."