Sentences with phrase «dissenting over the sentencing»

Justice Powell does make sense in dissenting over the sentencing order's requirement for no contact with Du's stepmother despite her wanting to have contact with him.

Not exact matches

In fact, Justice Stevens in footnote 16 of his dissent in Booker quotes Senator Hatch, who says that «the game is over for judges,» and he is «sick» of «softhearted judges» who would try to sentence someone in any other manner that what Congress would mandate.

While it didn't cite Gall specifically, another dissent issued this week, in the long - running bribery case of two men convicted over a Fulton County, Ga., bond deal, also demonstrated that the 11th Circuit is wrestling with sentences.

The sentence was more than five years under the sentencing range outlined in the federal sentencing guidelines, but over Dubina's dissent, two other judges affirmed the seven - year term.