United States v. Orthofix, Inc.

MEMORANDUM

YOUNG, District Judge.

I. INTRODUCTION

For seventeen years, this Court unconstitutionally sentenced offenders in accordance with an oxymoron-mandatory guidelines. Even after the Supreme Court finally put paid to this practice, United States v. Booker, 543 U.S. 220, 125 S.Ct. 738, 160 L.Ed.2d 621 (2005), and recalled district judges to their duty to exercise wise discretion in sentencing offenders, I continued, .rather reflexively,1 to accept “take it or leave it” pleas from corporate criminals in accordance with Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 11(c)(1)(C) (known commonly as “(C)…