The decision goes on to
discuss sentencing review and Gall at some length.
Not exact matches
The literature
review discusses gender differences in
sentencing, and concludes that males receive harsher
sentences than females.
Given the US Supreme Court's various struggles with proportionality
review of
sentences under the Eighth Amendment, I was intrigue to see this article recently posted on SSRN
discussing how the Supreme Court of Canada has approached this same issue.
And, in 1992, at the end of an FSR article entitled «
Reviewing the
Sentencing Commission's 1991 Annual Report» (
discussed here), Judge Alito made this insightful observation about the role of the USSC:
As detailed in an amicus brief on
sentencing issues I authored to support Rubashkin's cert petition (
discussed here), I concur with this commentary's advocacy for SCOTUS
review in this case focused on
sentencing issues.