Sentences with phrase «guidelines about judges»

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Perhaps we're entering in these modern years a new age where only judges, handlers and dog show participants really care about these strict guidelines, known as official breed standards.

Show System Guidelines and Information Want to learn about showing your ferret or becoming an AFA judge?

Here they can find show system guidelines and information where they can learn about showing their ferrets or becoming a judge.

I am home from the terrific Miami FSG conference (kudos to everyone involved), and on the way I was thinking about Judge Rakoff's decision this past week to give an enormous variance — the largest I have seen — to a corporate president who apparently faced a life sentence under the guidelines after a fraud conviction that resulted in $ 260 million in losses (basics here).

In felony cases, the Federal or Minnesota Sentencing Guidelines will provide guidance to the Judge about the sentence.

In his response Young also recommends that the extent to which judges depart from the guidelines should be monitored, and says that access to reliable data is essential to permit forecasting about the likely effect of sentencing guidelines on the prison population.

The Court properly and succinctly recognized that unless sentencing judges are allowed to define their alternative scorings categorically and honestly, there are only two possible outcomes: Either the guidelines are essentially mandatory, or judges lie about their reasoning, which is «institutional subterfuge.»

Would a defendant be able to raise claims about a PSR's or a district judge's «advisory» guideline calculations?

US District Judge Richard Kopf (Neb):» [J] udges obviously know more about the individuals we sentence than many other people [but] the significance of this truism to the statutory goals of sentencing is often zilch... [T] he importance of «knowing the person» is overstated by those who want excuses to do something different than what the Guidelines dictate....

(ii) The matters to be dealt with are: - the aggravating and mitigating factors of the offence (not personal mitigation); - any statutory provisions relevant to the offender and the offence under consideration so that the judge is made aware of any statutory limitations on sentencing; - any relevant sentencing guidelines and guideline cases; - identifying any victim personal statement or other information available to the prosecution advocate about the impact of the offence on the victim; - where appropriate, any evidence of the impact of the offending on a community; - an indication, where applicable, of an intention to apply for any ancillary orders, such as anti-social behaviour orders and confiscation orders, and so far as possible, indicating the nature of the order to be sought.

Canadian Lawyer Magazine recently published an article about developing guidelines for judges in Ontario who meet with and interview children in family law.

Judges must base decisions about child support on child support guidelines.

While the guideline is helpful to judges in making determinations about custody, there are a variety of other factors judges consider when making custody decisions.

As far back as 1987 I wrote an article advising judges about this problem and providing them with guidelines for interviewing these children (Gardner, 1987b).