The Untold Story of America's First Sentencing Commission

Statement of Diana E. Murphy before the Senate Subcommittee

Chairman Biden, members of the Subcommittee, I am Diana Murphy, Chair of the United States Sentencing Commission (the " Commission ") and a judge on the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals. I appreciate the opportunity to testify today about federal cocaine sentencing policy, and the Subcommittee should be commended for holding this important hearing. Although Congress and the Commission have been ...

Sentencing Commissions and Their Guidelines

Sentencing commissions, administrative agencies charged to develop and promulgate standards for sentencing, were first proposed early in the 1970s and first established in 1978. Of four recent major sentencing reform approaches-the others being parole guidelines, voluntary sentencing guidelines, and statutory determinate sentences-only sentencing commission systems continue to be created. Despi...

Consistency in Sentencing

INTRODUCTION Ireland has an individualised system of sentencing in which judges exercise a relatively broad sentencing discretion. Since the foundation of the State in 1922 few attempts have been made to change or challenge the nature of the Irish sentencing system. This lack of reform, however, does not necessarily reflect widespread satisfaction with the system as a whole. Indeed, a recurrent...

Federal Sentencing Can Be Made More Just, If the Sentencing Commission Wants to Make It So

Untold Story of High-density Lipoprotien (hdl) Cholesterol

Majority of patients in both the primary and secondary prevention settings continue to experience significant residual risk for acute cardiovascular events even when their LDL cholesterol is lowered aggressively with combinations of lifestyle modification and pharmacologic intervention. As a result, there has been increased focus on targeting and treating low serum levels of highdensity lipopro...