Legal Opinion
United States v. Aguilar-Huerta
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 3, 2009No. 08-2505, 08-3508PublishedCited by 77 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
We have consolidated these two sentencing appeals in order to flag a growing problem created by the Booker decision, which in the name of the Sixth Amendment demoted the federal sentencing guidelines to advisory status. Before there were guidelines, a federal judge in picking a sentence ranged essentially at large within the typically broad statutory sentencing limits, appellate review of the choice of sentence within those limits being minimal, even perfunctory. See Wasman v. United States, 468 U.S. 559, 563, 104 S.Ct. 3217, 82 L.Ed.2d 424 (1984); United States v.…
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