United States v. Aguilar-Huerta

U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit · Decided 2009-08-03

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POSNER, Circuit Judge. We have consolidated these two sentencing appeals in order to flag a growing problem created by the Booker decision, which in the name of the Sixth Amendment demoted the federal sentencing guidelines to advisory status. Before there were guidelines, a federal judge in picking a sentence ranged essentially at large within the typically b…

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