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U.S. Sentencing Commission - Year In Review |
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Chapter One - Commission Overview |
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Introduction |
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A Brief History of Federal Sentencing Reform |
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Agency Overview |
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Commissioners |
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Organization |
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Staffing |
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Budget and Expenditures |
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Chapter Two - The Sentencing Guidelines |
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Guideline Amendments |
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Amendments Promulgated |
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Amendments in Response to Congressional Directives and Enacted |
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Legislation |
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Other Promulgated Amendments |
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Policy Issues |
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Terrorism |
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Firearms |
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Compassionate Release |
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Crime Victims’ Act |
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Steroids |
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Guideline Application Issues |
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Immigration |
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Intellectual Property |
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Miscellaneous Laws |
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Advisory Groups |
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Practitioners Advisory Group |
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Probation Officers Advisory Group |
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Assistance to Congress |
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Chapter Three - Legal Issues |
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Introduction |
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U.S. Supreme Court Decisions on Sentencing Issues |
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Decisions |
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Petitions for Certiorari Granted |
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Decisions of the United States Courts of Appeals |
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Calculating the Guideline Range |
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Motions for Guideline Departures |
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Reasonableness Review |
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Chapter Four - Guideline Training and Education |
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Internet Web Site |
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Public Information |
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Publications and Training Materials |
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Training |
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Training New Appointees |
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Fifteenth Annual National Seminar on Federal Sentencing Guidelines |
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Circuit and District-Based Guideline Education |
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Organizational Guidelines Training |
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"High-Tech" Approaches to Training |
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HelpLine |
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Temporary Assignment Programs |
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Chapter Five - Research |
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Statutory Requirements |
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Document Submission |
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Data Collection |
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Data Collection Issues |
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Summary of 2006 Findings |
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Sentencing Individual Offenders |
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Offender Characteristics |
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Guideline Cases |
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Guideline Application |
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Sentences Within the Guideline Range and Outside the Range |
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Drug Cases |
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Immigration Cases |
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Organizational Sentencing Practices |
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Changes from Prior Annual Reports |
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Offense Characteristics |
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Offender Characteristics |
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Sanctions Imposed |
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Appeals Data |
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Summary of Information Received |
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Issues and Guidelines Appealed |
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Reasonableness |
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Overall Offense and Offender Characteristics |
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Data Analyses for the Courts and Congress |
