Ever since the U.S. Supreme Court in 2005 upended the federal sentencing guidelines in United States v. Booker, 543 U.S. 220, judges have struggled to apply the now-advisory guidelines.
One example of the difficulty they have faced came last week, when a panel of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals took the unusual step of withdrawing an opinion to issue a new one.
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