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U.S. v. PEREZ

Crim. Nos. A-87-CR-116(1), A-87-CR-116(2), A-88-CR-20(1), A-88-CR-20(3), A-88-CR-20(4) and A-88-CR-20(5).

685 F.Supp. 990 (1988)

UNITED STATES of America v. Ricardo PEREZ and Charles Wayne Andrus. UNITED STATES of America v. Rafael Homero CARRALES, William Franklin Saathoff, Michael Ray Stelly, and John Henry Daniels.

United States District Court, W.D. Texas, Austin Division.

May 23, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Nino, Houston, Tex., for defendant Rafael Homero Carrales.

Paul Van Osselaer, Shapiro, Edens & Cook, William B. Hilgers, Hilgers & Watkins, Austin, Tex., for defendant William Franklin Saathoff.

Richard W. South, Bankston, Wright & Greenhill, Austin, Tex., for defendant Michael Ray Stelly.

William A. White, William P. Allison, White & Allison, Austin, Tex., for defendant John Henry Daniels.

Gerald H. Goldstein, Robert O. Switzer, Goldstein, Goldstein & Hilley, San Antonio, Tex., for amicus curiae, Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Ass'n.

John R. Steer, Gen. Counsel, Donald A. Purdy, Jr., Deputy Gen. Counsel, U.S. Sentencing Com'n, Washington, D.C., (Paul S. Bator, Andrew L. Frey, Kenneth S. Geller, Stephen G. Gilles, Mayer, Brown & Platt, Washington, D.C., of counsel), for amicus curiae U.S. Sentencing Com'n.

Frank Maloney, President, National Ass'n. of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Local Counsel, Austin, Tex., Benson B. Weintraub, Sonnett Sale & Kuehne, P.A., Miami, Fla., for amicus curiae, National Ass'n. of Criminal Defense Lawyers.

ORDER

NOWLIN, District Judge.

The Court is faced with challenges filed by six defendants to the constitutionality of the Sentencing Reform Act of 1984, and to the Sentencing Guidelines promulgated by the United States Sentencing Commission. The challenges raise a question of supreme importance to the federal criminal justice system: whether the elaborate sentencing procedures, practices, and directives created by the United States Sentencing Commission upon...

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