United States v. Andrews

OPINION SUPPORTING A DEPARTURE IN SENTENCING

BIERY, District Judge.

“If the law supposes that ... the law is... a idiot.... and the worst I wish the law is, that his eye may be opened by experience — by experience.”

Mr. Bumble Charles Dickens, The Adventures of Oliver Twist 327 (Country Life Press 1900) (1897).

Mr. Bumble might feel the same about the sentencing law in this case. See 18 U.S.C. §§ 3551-3673, 28 U.S.C. §§ 991-998.

The sentencing guidelines for assessing punishments in the federal courts work reasonably well in the large percentage of cases before this Court. See also U.S. Gen.…