The Yale Law Journal

Jillian Hewitt

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Fifty Shades of Gray: Sentencing Trends in Major White-Collar Cases

Jillian Hewitt

Between 1987 and 2005, federal judges sentenced defendants pursuant to binding Sentencing Guidelines that severely curtailed their discretion. In United States v. Booker, the Supreme Court held the mandatory Guidelines sentencing scheme unconstitutional and rendered the Gui…