United States v. Jackson

SENTENCING OPINION

LYNCH, District Judge.

This case presents sentencing issues that demonstrate the occasional complexity of the federal Sentencing Guidelines. Although the intricacies of the guideline application here are interesting and significant in themselves, the case also illustrates aspects of the Guidelines that are of crucial relevance to both the constitutional questions currently under consideration by the Supreme Court, and to questions of sentencing policy that should be of concern to the Commission and the Congress.

BACKGROUND

The defendant Suif Jackson stands convicted, by his…