"Most of the judges we interviewed were quite bitter about the
operation of the sentencing guidelines. As one of them remarked:
`The people who drew up these guidelines never sat in a court and
had to look a defendant in the eye while imposing some of these
sentences.'"
Source: Smith, Alexander, and Polack, Harriet, "Curtailing the
Sentencing Power of Trial Judges: The Unintended Consequences",
Court Review (Williamsburg, VA: American Judges Association,
Summer 1999), p. 6.
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