Full Document (Searchable PDF with bookmarks at every subject)

List of subjects discussed in email exchanges:

• Eleanor Kerlow, introduction and agenda
• Alan L. Zegas – Guideline Background
• Personal Experience with Guidelines (various responses)
• Good or Bad Precedent?
• Relevant Conduct
• Departing from the Guidelines
• Drug Guideline Offense Levels
• Probation Department as Thorn
• Calculations and Predictions
• Secret Sentencing Letters
• 11th Circuit Cocaine Ruling
• ADM Plea
• Loss Calculations
• Acceptance of Responsibility
• A stacked desk?
• Unfair to Poor, Minorities?
• Overriding Question
• What Should We Expect?
• Formulaic Mish Mosh
• Simplification Proposals
• Trap For the Unwary
• Mandatory Minimums & Guidelines
• Simplify via Expert System?
• One District Judge’s View

The full document includes contributions from:

• Fred Warren Bennett, PAG
• Joe Brown, US Attorney, Middle District of Tennessee
• Samuel Buffone, PAG
• Stanley Harris, Judge; District of Columbia
• Lawrence Lustberg
• Marc Mauer, Assistant Director; The Sentencing Project
• Julie O’Sullivan, Associate Professor of Law; Georgetown University Law Center
• Ronald Wright, Professor; Wake Forest University School of Law
• David Yellin; Professor, Hofstra University School of Law
• Jim Bishop, Deputy Chief Probation Officer; Middle District of Florida
• Tom Hutchinson, Chief, Sentencing Guidelines Group; Federal Public and Community Defenders
• Joe Whitley, former US Attorney
• Daniel J. Freed, Clinical Professor Emeritus of Law and Administration at Yale Law School