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Glenn R. Schmitt

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Why Judges Matter at Sentencing: A Reply to Starr and Rehavi

Glenn R. Schmitt, Louis Reedt, & Kevin Blackwell

In this Essay, researchers at the United States Sentencing Commission respond to criticisms by Sonja Starr and Marit Rehavi, published in the Yale Law Journal, of the Commission’s past analyses of demographic differences in federal sentences. The researchers explain the legal and practical foundatio…