Sanctions must be cost-effective projects and be carefully created. Judges and legislators will be natural enemies because of budget issues. Judges and workers in the system will ask for larger budgets and legislators will attempt to reduce spending. The advisory system will not work if the goal is to have uniform sentencing. Disparities in sentencing will continue and there will not be a systematic response to larger criminal justice questions.
Judges hand down sentences either higher or lower depending on the facts surrounding the case.
Do not base sentencing guidelines on past trends. This will not create change, which is the purpose of the commission, but accelerate the rate of the trend. Establish a process of thinking, not just a worksheet. Multiple Charges and the Prosecution Prosecutors must be able to focus on the most important charges. Prosecuting each charge would drain the system.