Court Opinion

ID: 9481206
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 08:11:14.928437+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:48:09.473724
License: Public Domain

RESTANI, Judge:
I concur in both the result and the reasoning of the majority. No opinion is offered as to whether the trial judge, in the absence of the Federal Sentencing Guidelines, would have or should have imposed a more lenient sentence in this particular case. I would observe, however, that application of the career offender provision of the Guidelines in certain cases may be over: ly harsh and the lack of discretion allowed the trial judge is disturbing. Nonetheless, curtailment of judicial discretion is what Congress intended by approval of the career offender provision in particular, and the Guidelines in general. Any remedy lies with Congress.