United States v. Myers

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

PRATT, District Judge.

“If the 600-plus pages of the most recent set of sentencing guidelines have taught us anything, it is that punishment cannot be reduced to an algorithm.”

-The Hon. Myron H. Thompson, Editorial, Sentencing and Sensibility, N.Y. Times, Jan. 21, 2005.

Before the Court is the matter of imposing judgment on the Defendant, Robert Francis Myers. The Supreme Court’s decision in United States v. Booker , — U.S. -, 125 S.Ct. 738, 160 L.Ed.2d 621 (2005), made the United States Sentencing Guidelines (“Guidelines”) advisory. While a greater degree of…