Instead, the Court should honor Congress' clear intention to leave settled practice in juvenile sentencing undisturbed. As an important aspect of this overhaul, Guidelines sentencing formalizes sentencing procedures. The informality was to some extent explained by the fact that particular offense and offender characteristics rarely had a highly specific or required sentencing consequence. This situation will no longer exist under sentencing guidelines. The court's resolution of disputed sentencing factors will usually have a measurable effect on the applicable punishment.
More formality is therefore unavoidable if the sentencing process is to beaccurate and fair .
Thus, factual findings made at adult sentencing hearings can be challenged on appeal. When Congress made these fundamental changes in sentencing, it repealed the Youth Corrections Act, Pub. Brief for United States 11, n. 1. Thus, Congress did not intend the Guidelines to apply to juveniles. To resolve the ambiguity, the cross reference was deleted in 1986 as one of numerous technical amendments.