Court Opinion

ID: 9482953
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 09:06:13.328907+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:49:19.131174
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WILL, Senior District Judge,
concurring.
’While I concur in the court’s conclusions, I am impelled to write separately to emphasize that the irrationality and draconian *647nature of the Guidelines sentencing process is again unhappily reflected in this case, resulting in what the district court and, I believe, my colleagues understandably recognize to be a harsh sentence. The district judge sentenced Andruska to 42 months imprisonment, hardly a slap on the wrist. The Guidelines calculation is 97-121 months although the statutory maximum specified in 18 U.S.C. § 1071 under which she was convicted is 60 months. Unfortunately, under the Guidelines, neither the district judge nor we appear to have discretion to impose a reasonable sentence. The serious defects and injustice in the Guidelines sentencing process have been noted by a number of courts, most comprehensively in the concurring opinion of Judge Edwards in United States v. Harrington, 947 F.2d 956, 963-70 (D.C.Cir.1991). I join in the disposition here, unhappy though I believe it to be, because Congress and the Sentencing Commission have foreclosed a more just result.