Court Opinion

ID: 9460024
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 21:38:02.795079+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:36:26.176583
License: Public Domain

IRVING R. KAUFMAN, Chief Judge
(concurring):
My dissenting brother has taken this opportunity to express at some length his condemnation of uniform or mechanical sentencing policies, while noting with approval the goal of individualized sentencing. Were it not for the facts of this ease, I would not hesitate to join in Judge Lumbard’s opinion for there can *362be no dispute with his statement of elementary principles which are to govern every sentence. But, his exposition of the philosophical underpinnings of sentencing policy must not obscure the requisite analysis of the facts before us. Thus, for the reasons stated in the opinion of my brother Timbers, I am of the view that Judge Wyatt did not, in fact, follow a uniform sentencing policy for selective service cases, nor did he fail to consider Baker’s violation in the context of the particular circumstances in which it was committed. Accordingly, I join Judge Timbers in affirming the judgment of conviction.