Sentencing Guidelines That Limits Choice By Judges Are Endorsed by Justice Official.

Reports on the endorsement of a minimum guidelines system that is designed to limit federal judges' sentencing discretion by William W. Mercer, the principal associate deputy attorney general, in 2006. Information on the minimum guidelines system; Views of Judiciary chairman F. James Sensenbrenner Jr. (R-Wis.) on the system; Rejection of the Justice Department proposal by subcommittee Democrats and Paul G. Cassell, a Utah district court judge who testified on behalf of the federal judiciary.