Mandatory sentencing guidelines have become as complicated and detailed as the IRS code!
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
When you talk about mandatory minimums, it created a lot of unfairness in our sentencing.
You pay a price when you have an objective sentencing system. That is, nothing is perfect.
I agree with President Obama and Attorney General Holder that we need to reform our criminal sentencing laws.
Mandatory minimum sentencing has disproportionately affected blacks, Hispanics and others who often don't have the financial means to fight back.
I believe indeterminate sentencing can be extremely useful, but I also believe that any such system should always take into consideration the special knowledge as to the facts in a case which only the trial judge possesses.
The IRS should and must focus on the most important and most egregious and the most in need.
The U.S. tax code was written by A students. Every April 15, we have to pay somebody who got an A in accounting to keep ourselves from being sent to jail.
As American taxpayers know too well, the tax code is incredibly complex and compliance is all to expensive.
In the U.S., you have so many rules, everything's regulated and structured. When you make a mistake, you pay for it -a lot.
I am deeply impressed with the gravity and wisdom with which most federal judges approach the responsibility of sentencing. It is a difficult, soul-searching task at best.